Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:55:57 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: C&O Canal 4/16 Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On a walk upstream from Pennyfield today I found the following: 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Louisiana Waterthrushes Chimney Swifts At Blockhouse Point there were 3 Spotted Sandpipers and 10 Double-crested Cormorants on the rocks. At Violette's Lock there were: 13 Pied-billed Grebes 3 Mallards 10 Gadwall 5 American Wigeon 3 Lesser Scaup 3 Buffleheads 1 Immature Bald Eagle 10 Coot 2 Ring-billed Gulls 2 Purple Martins 1 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Parula 1 white goose as large as a Canada but with a head and bill like a Snow Goose. No black in the primaries. Very mixed parentage. At Seneca: 56 Double-crested Cormorants on the downstream end of Sharpshin Island, decorating the trees (this is the island just upstream from Seneca). 3 Common Mergansers 1 Northern Parula Lots of fishermen Paul O'Brien Rockville, MD pobrien776@aol.com 301-424-6491 ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================