Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:26:11 -0400 Reply-To: les_eastman@netfox.net Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Eastman Organization: Harford Bird Club Subject: Harford Birds and flowers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Each morning on the way to my office, I have been surveying a vernal pool on the Edgewood area of Aberdeen Proving Ground looking for early shorebirds. I haven't seen any yet, but there is usually a good study in blackbirds with Rusty Blackbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds, Common Grackles and Starlings present. The most Rusties I have seen was about 50 on Tuesday morning. This morning there were about 30. On the way home this evening, I went through Susquehanna State Park. At Lapidum, there were hundreds of DC Cormorants, 2 Caspian Terns, an Osprey and a Bald Eagle (there is nest just down river). The wild flowers along Stafford Road are peaking with lots of trilliums, Dutchman's Britches, squirrel corn, and Virginia Bluebells in bloom. The trout lilies are mostly gone but there are a few left. About 6:45 pm, I saw my first Chimney Swift of the year flying over the soccer fields at the National Guard Armory in Havre de Grace. Good birding, Les ====================== Les Eastman mailto:les_eastman@netfox.net Havre de Grace, MD Visit the Harford Bird Club Web Page at http://birdclub.harfordhasit.com Visit the Havre de Grace Soccer Web Page at http://hdgsoccer.harfordhasit.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================