Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:46:57 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Nassawango Rd./Whiton Rd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Went birding at my cousin's farm on Dividing Creek Rd in Worcester County, MD yesterday morning. 11 Turkey Vulture 3 Black Vulture 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Killdeer (on pond edge) 6 Laughing Gull (flyby) 2 Ring-billed Gull (flyby) 2 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift (flyby) 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Kingbird 3 Barn Swallow 1 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Hermit Thrush 5 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 8 European Starling 1 White-eyed Vireo 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 1 Palm Warbler (first time ever at the farm) 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Chipping Sparrow 3 Savannah Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow (seen every winter for years 3 "Slate-colored" Junco 7 Common Grackle 1 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 34 species After leaving the farm, going north on Nassawango Rd and Whiton Rd and made few stops for birds in the fields. 1 Great Blue Heron - Nassawango Creek 1 Green-backed Heron - same as above 2 Canada Goose - same as above 1 Mallard - same as above 1 Wood Duck - same as above 38 Turkey Vulture 6 Black Vulture 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Kestrel 2 Killdeer 205 Laughing Gull 20 Ring-billed Gull 13 Herring Gull 29 Rock Dove 3 Mourning Dove 3 Northern Flicker 1 Horned Lark (1 mile N of Porter Crossing Rd on Whiton Rd on R with 4 E. Meadowlark) 20 Tree Swallow 51 Barn Swallow 10 American Crow 15 Eastern Bluebird 17 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 108 European Starling 1 Northern Cardinal 4 Eastern Meadowlark 18 Red-winged Blackbird 286 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 House Sparrow 30 species Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================