Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:28:19 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park 4/3 - 4/9 2000 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An interesting and exciting week which resulted in two firsts in one day, and daily totals which varied from 2 to 457. Thursday, 4/6, produced our first Golden Eagle (immature)in a spring season (and only the second ever). In addition, the first ever dark-morph Redtail also flew by. A strong cold front Saturday afternoon produced winds so strong on Sunday that few hawks ventured by. 4/3/00 NH 1 SS 1 Total 2 4/5/00 BV 16 TV 151 OS 9 BE 4 NH 15 SS 35 CH 35 RS 2 BW 1 RT 11 AK 24 ML 2 TOTAL 305 4/6/00 TV 114 OS 9 BE 1 NH 3 SS 79 CH 35 RS 31 BW 6 RT 92 GE 1 AK 17 TOTAL 388 4/8/00 BV 9 TV 191 OS 25 BE 1 NH 4 SS 72 CH 22 RS 6 BW 16 RT 63 AK 39 ML 5 U 4 TOTAL 457 4/9/00 TV 6 SS 1 AK 2 TOTAL 9 SEASON TOTALS BV 219 TV 2888 OS 123 BE 2026 NH 59 SS 455 CH 221 NG 1 RS 232 BW 28 RT 359 GE 1 AK 512 ML 12 U 12 TOTAL 5148 HOURS 184 Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River, about 11 miles south of Baltimore, MD. All numbers are unofficial. Sue A. Ricciardi 1132 Ferber Avenue Arnold, Maryland 21012 susie@idsonline.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================