Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 09:49:59 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 12/02/00 Comments: To: d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, toadlady@fls.infi.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Conowingo Dam December 2, 2000 0900-1700 Mostly sunny, 38 degrees, winds NE 15MPH Observer: Gene Scarpulla Generation Schedule: 0900 - 1130 1600 - ? It was a dandy day on my first visit to Conowingo Dam for the 2000-2001 winter gull season. Good numbers of gulls, five expected species. Some other non-gull species for a bit of spice. *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 3 *GREAT CORMORANT *1 Great Blue Heron 103 Black Vulture 45 Turkey Vulture 47 Canada Goose 75 American Black Duck 19 Mallard 7 (4 male, 3 female) Common Merganser 20 *BALD EAGLE *33 (8 adult, 25 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) *GOLDEN EAGLE *1 (1st year) *PEREGRINE FALCON *1 (immature) Killdeer 1 Bonaparte's Gull 25 Ring-billed Gull 7000 Herring Gull 50 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 (adult winter) Great Black-backed Gull 100 Rock Dove 150 American Crow 11 crow sp. 10 European Starling 5000 *WILSON'S WARBLER *1 (not personally observed) (observed on Wildflower Trail by a PA Audubon field trip) Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================