Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 06:48:46 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 01/13/01 Comments: To: d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, Jlstasz@aol.com, toadlady@fls.infi.net, voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Conowingo Dam January 13, 2001 0800-1720 AM: sunny, 25 degrees, no wind PM: sunny, 45 degrees, no wind Observers: Gene Scarpulla & Rick Blom; including some additional sightings by Don Burggraf, Fran & Norm Saunders, Sue Ricciardi & the Anne Arundel County Bird Club, Mike Bowen & the Montgomery County Bird Club, the West Chester (PA) Bird Club. Generation Schedule: prior to 0800: none 0800 - 1610: 1 small generator 1610 - 1615: 3 small generators 1615 - 1700: 6 small generators 1700 - 1702: 10 small generators, 2 large 1702 - 1704: 10 small generators, 4 large 1704 - dusk: 10 small generators, 6 large Gull Watching Conditions: Poor Virtually no generation entire day Catwalk closed Gulls spread out on shoals downriver *SPECIES OF NOTE Great Blue Heron 62 Black-crowned Hight-Heron 7 Black Vulture 12 Turkey Vulture 5 Canada Goose 336 Tundra Swan 2 Gadwall 3 American Black Duck 30 Mallard 17 Hooded Merganser 4 (2 male, 2 female) Common Merganser 380 Bald Eagle 4 (3 adult, 1 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 600 Herring Gull 2400 *THAYER'S GULL *1 (adult-winter) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (adult-winter) Great Black-backed Gull 130 Rock Dove 100 Belted Kingfisher 2 (1 male, 1 unknown) Red-Headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 10 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 5 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren 9 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 1000 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 12 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 5 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================