Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:51:34 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: rick Subject: Harford Co. Birds Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yesterday, for the first time in seven weeks I managed a little time birding in Harford County. Havre de Grace: Double-crested Cormorant 200 Great Blue Heron 20 Canada Geese yup Mallard yup American Wigeon 2 Green-winged Teal 3 Northern Shoveler 1 American Coot 40 shorebirds nada, zippo, zilch, not even Killdeer Bonaparte's Gull 28 Ring-billed Gull 15 Herring Gull 30 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (2nd winter/summer) Great Black-backed Gull 34 Caspian Tern 220 swallows 100s, including tree, barn, bank, martins) Spesutie Island Green Heron 2 AMERICAN BITTERN* 1 Wood Duck 4 Red-breasted Merganser 7 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Common Snipe 14 Rough-winged Swallow 2 The bittern was a bird I missed on my big year last year! Rick The command, Be Fruitful and Multiply, was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. -- William Ralph Inge Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086 Editor: BWD Skimmer (www.birdwatchersdigest.com) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================