Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 23:28:35 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park 4/26 - 5/4 2000 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rain followed by heat. I suspect that many migrants have been taking a more hospitable route which has not included Fort Smallwood. Only Red-shoulders and Red-tails have been showing better overall numbers compared to the last two years, while Sharp-shins are drastically low. 4/26/00 OS 7 SS 22 CH 3 RS 2 BW 3 ML 3 Total 40 4/27/00 OS 2 4/28/00 TV 6 OS 13 NH 4 SS 49 CH 9 RS 2 BW 5 ML 1 TOTAL 89 4/29/00 BV 1 TV 18 OS 3 SS 45 CH 12 BW 6 ML 2 PG 1 TOTAL 96 4/30/00 TV 22 OS 4 NH 2 SS 213 CH 21 RS 1 BW 1 AK 36 ML 5 TOTAL 305 5/1/00 OS 5 BE 1 NH 7 SS 80 CH 15 RS 1 BW 2 RT 8 AK 2 UB 4 TOTAL 125 5/2/00 OS 1 NH 7 SS 199 CH 19 BW 4 RT 1 AK 3 TOTAL 234 5/3/00 TV 8 OS 1 SS 19 CH 8 TOTAL 36 5/4/00 SS 4 CH 1 RT 1 TOTAL 6 SEASON TOTALS BV 227 TV 3026 OS 327 BE 33 NH 130 SS 1723 CH 382 NG 2 RS 246 BW 299 RT 388 GE 1 AK 862 ML 42 PG 3 U 22 TOTAL 7713 HOURS 279.1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================