Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:11:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Re: McBeshers-Besher Mont, Co. 8-06-00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brain is not working this morning Should be McKee-Beshers WMA. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Woodward To: Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:09 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] McBeshers-Besher Mont, Co. 8-06-00 > 6 August 2000 > > Drove in on River Road as usual checking the wires for swallows. > Then I returned to the upper parking lot and hiked along RRd to the first > bridge beyond Willard Rd.. Came back mostly along Hunting Quarter Rd. > where I checked the impoundments. By this time it was raining hard and > there was almost no bird activity. Ended up with 28 species with the > highlights being a Great Egret flying toward the river on the way in, 3 > Prothontary Warblers forgaging in the willows along the N-S dyke(first seen > in the buttonbushes) and a Grasshopper Sparrow singing in the field NW of > the intersection of Sycamore Landing and River Rds. It was actually about > 1/2 betweenSLRd and Willard Rd. Ohter species singing were Carolina Wren, > Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Towhee, Field Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Cardinal, and > Indigo Bunting. > There were only 15 Rough-winged Swallows on the wires, so when I left > I drove some back roads looking for more. Found 53 Barn Swallowa and one > tree along Sugarland Road near Montevideo and another 9 barns along > Montevideo. > > 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 ========================================================================== ==========================================================================