Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:03:53 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 01/14/01 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 14, 2001 0830-1700 AM: cloudy, 25 degrees, no wind PM: cloudy, 40 degrees, no wind Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Boltz, Gail Frantz, Joel Martin, Ben Poscover, Bob Rineer, Drew Thornblad, (Baltimore Bird Club Field Trip) Generation Schedule: prior to 0800: none 0800 - 1600: 1 small generator 1600 - dusk: 3 small generators Gull Watching Conditions: Poor Virtually no generation entire day Catwalk closed due to ice Low numbers of gulls spread out on shoals downriver *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 1 (first-year) Great Blue Heron 79 Black-crowned Night-heron 3 (adult) Black Vulture 1 Canada Goose 1100 American Black Duck 381 Mallard 20 Hooded Merganser 5 (3 male, 2 female) *COMMON MERGANSER *10,200 (~10,000 male, ~200 female) Bald Eagle 5 (2 adult, 3 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 2 (1 adult, 1 unknown) Ring-billed Gull 300 Herring Gull 600 Great Black-backed Gull 120 Rock Dove 100 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 (male) Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 8 crow sp. 19 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 8 Winter Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 10,000 (on the metal girder superstructure over the turbine building; completely ignoring the propane cannon firing which was being used to frighten them away; firing occurred from 1630 until I left) *AMERICAN PIPIT *1 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 2 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================