Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:00:49 -0500 Reply-To: bott@erols.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Howard birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today the Howard Bird club held it's traditional "Start your new list" walk with a tour of the county. We started off with a bang at centennial park with fantastic views of 3 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS. The REDHEADS were still present along with a single GOLDENEYE, RING-NECKS, RUDDY and CANVASBACKS. We popped over to Font hill where we found 3 SWAMP SPARROWS along with a nice group of passerines. GOLDEN-CROWN KINGLET and a SAPSUCKER were very entertaining. Alpha ridge park was slow but we did see a nice group of BLUEBIRDS and our only SHARPIE. We headed to Mt. Pleasant and had our only GREAT BLUE HERON. A TOWHEE was a nice surprise along with a single YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. After a nice lunch break we ended up at the central farm. We found a single BLACK DUCK, PHOEBE by the stream and 4 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. Appropriately we ended the day with 2 SAVANNAH SPARROWS! A total of 50 species and a great day. Bonnie Ott Ellicott city bott@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================