Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:27:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: waterfowl at Wharf Rd., Piscataway Creek MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sounds like an impressive amount of waterfowl. Where is Wharf Rd, Piscataway Creek? GregDowning Manchester, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George M. Jett" To: Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:54 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] waterfowl at Wharf Rd., Piscataway Creek > No mangos (ha ha), but saw a nice variety of ducks at this location today > between 3 and 4 pm (with more Canada Geese arriving by the minute). It was > a real treat to hear the Tundra Swans calling, and see many Gadwall in > courtship groups. The approximate totals were: > > 170 Gadwall > 160 Northern Pintail > 150 Tundra Swan > 20 American Wigeon > 1000 Canada Geese > 120 Northern Shoveler > 10 American Black Duck > 60 Lesser Scaup > 250 Mallard > 80 Bufflehead > 400 Ring-necked Ducks > 4 Redhead > 260 Canvasback > 250 Ruddy Duck > 180 American Coot > 3 Pied-billed Grebe > 7 Great-blue Heron > numerous Ring-billed Gull > 1 Great Black-backed gull > > Sorry, no Eurasian Wigeon, but I'll keep looking- > > Gwen Brewer > wigeons@hotmail.com > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================