Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:30:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: Cecil@Conowingo...and Perryville- Late Osprey!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am familiar with Conowingo and may go look for the Golden Eagle. Thanks for the info! When you said you went to Perryville, where exactly do you mean? I really want to see some hooded mergansers! Thanks for sharing! Greg Downing Parkton, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "gonbrdn" To: Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 2:50 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Cecil@Conowingo...and Perryville- Late Osprey!! > Hi All: > The Cecil Bird Club enjoyed a very successful trip to Conowingo Dam on > 12\02, led by Charlie Gant and Sean McCandless. 19 birders were > present, 3 of them our most recent new members, and picked up a new > member today!! Birds of the day were GOLDEN EAGLE, 1 sub- adult and 2 > juvenile. Charlie, making the first call, was beside himself; actually > everyone in the crowd was thrilled. The 2nd juv. GOEA was spotted after > Charlie had left, and we were headed onto the trail; Sean picked it up > flying from the Cecil side of the river. Others were happy to get an > adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, perched on the concrete wall at the base > of the dam. BONAPARTES GULL flew by at good intervals, providing all > with good looks. By Charlies` reckoning, we counted 26 BALD EAGLES, in > all plumages. A good flight of RED-TAILED HAWKS was going on as well, > and one RED-SHOULDERED during the morning. On the trail, we had > numerous WINTER WREN. > > After the trip, I headed to Perryville for a quick look and got female > RED-BREASTED MERG and HORNED GREBE, a single of each. Also present were > WIGEON, RING-NECKED DUCK, SHOVELOR, PIED-BILLED GREBE, HOODED MERG ( an > invasion, ~ 40 ), GADWALL, GOLDENEYE ( one female ) and BUFFLEHEAD. On > the way out, I found Parke John just starting the loop. He had found a > very late OSPREY in the first cove, perched feeding on a log. By the > remnant speckling on its` back, it had to have been a juvenile bird. > All in all, a very enjoyable day. > Leslie Fisher > Cecil Co. > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================