Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:11:52 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 12/31/00 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 31, 2000 0800-1715 AM: sunny, 20 degrees, N 10 MPH PM: sunny, 30 degrees, N 25 MPH Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Rick Blom (Part of the Rock Run Christmas Bird Count) Generation Schedule: prior to 0800: none 0800 - 1630: 1 small generator 1630 - 1632: 3 small generators 1632 - 1634: 6 small generators 1634 - dusk: 8 small generators Gull Watching Conditions: Poor Virtually no generation almost entire day Catwalk closed Gulls spread out on shoals downriver *SPECIES OF NOTE Great Blue Heron 146 Black-crowned Hight-Heron 1 (adult) Black Vulture 11 Turkey Vulture 3 Canada Goose 7500 *RICHARDSON'S CANADA GOOSE *1 American Black Duck 240 Mallard 90 Common Goldeneye 11 Bufflehead 2 Hooded Merganser 1 (male) Common Merganser 3200 Red-breasted Merganser 1 (male) Bald Eagle 7 (3 adult, 4 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 4 (adult) Ring-billed Gull 3200 Herring Gull 210 *THAYER'S GULL *1 (adult-winter) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (adult-winter) Great Black-backed Gull 90 Rock Dove 150 Belted Kingfisher 1 (male) Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 American Crow 20 crow sp. 120 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 7 European Starling 800 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 6 Dark-eyed Junco 15 Northern Cardinal 1 blackbird sp. 20,000 American Goldfinch 1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================