Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:52:19 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Re: McKee-Beshers Mont. Co. 7-22-00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ooops, swallows were rough-wings. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Woodward To: Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:44 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] McKee-Beshers Mont. Co. 7-22-00 > 22 July 2000 > > After driving in on River Road to check the wires for swallows, I > spent the rest of the morning taking one of my smaller loop walks at > McKee-Beshers. Walked around the impoundments, then along Hunting Quart= er > Rd. to the middle parking lot, then to the towpath along the road, back west > to Horsepen Hiker-Biker and then returned to the impoundments. Ended u= p > with a respectable 48 species. Best birds were a Great Egret at the po= nd > near the towpath(first seen on 7-16), a Willow Flycatcher calling brie= fly > in the buttonbush marsh, and a Prothonotary Warbler along the east-west > dyke. > Still some nesting activity going on. Species heard singing included > Eastern Wood-Pewee, Acadian Flycatcher,Red-eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren, House > Wren, Wood Thrush, Common Yellowthroat, Scarlet Tanager, Field Sparrow, Song > Sparrow, Cardinal, and Indigo Bunting. > Swallow numbers are increasing had 140 along River Road and 15 in= a > dead tree along the river. There are fairly good size mats of water > stargrass in the Potomac, but I only saw 2 Wood Ducks in them. > > Paul Woodward > Fairfax City, VA > grackling@worldnet.att.net > > ========================= ================================================ > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ========================= ================================================ > ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================