Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:01:37 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 01/07/01 Comments: To: d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, Jlstasz@aol.com, toadlady@fls.infi.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Conowingo Dam January 7, 2001 0730-1730 AM: sunny, 25 degrees, no wind PM: cloudy, 42 degrees, no wind Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Harford County Bird Club field trip (~15 participants), Spike Updegrove's biology class from C. Milton Wright High School (~25 students and parents) Generation Schedule: prior to 0800: none 0800 - dusk: 1 small generator Gull Watching Conditions: Poor Virtually no generation entire day Catwalk closed Gulls spread out on shoals downriver *SPECIES OF NOTE Great Blue Heron 60 Black-crowned Hight-Heron 4 (3 adult, 1 juvenile) Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 1 Canada Goose 1000 Tundra Swan 11 Muscovy Duck 1 (black-&-white) Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 15 Mallard 31 Common Goldeneye 2 (1 male, 1 female) Hooded Merganser 2 (male) Common Merganser 1000 Bald Eagle 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 700 Herring Gull 300 *ICELAND GULL *1 (first-winter) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (adult-winter) Great Black-backed Gull 50 *MYSTERY GULL *1 (third-winter; size uncertain but probably near Herring Gull-sized; mantle color appeared much darker gray than typical "British" Lesser Black-backed Gull [L. F. graellsii]; mantle color more Slaty-backed Gull-ish; mantle color not black; brown feathers still apparent in mantle; no tail band; dull yellow bill with black ring; bright pink legs; observed for about 3 minutes in flight feeding in front of the small generator.) Rock Dove 100 Belted Kingfisher 1 (male) Red-Headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 10 Carolina Chickadee 15 Tufted Titmouse 12 Carolina Wren 3 Winter Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 3 European Starling 3000 Song Sparrow 9 White-throated Sparrow 58 Dark-eyed Junco 15 Northern Cardinal 7 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================