Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:32:16 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Conowingo Dam: 01/27/01 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 27, 2001 1000-1700 AM: cloudy, 30 degrees, NW 5 MPH PM: partly sunny, 40 degrees, NW 20 MPH Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison Generation Schedule: 1000 - 1700: 1 small generator Gull Watching Conditions: NONEXISTENT Virtually no generation entire day Catwalk closed due to ice Virtually no gulls spread out on shoals downriver (part of Harford County Mid-Winter Bird Count) *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 1 (first-year) Great Blue Heron 91 Black-crowned Night-heron 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile) Black Vulture 6 Turkey Vulture 8 Canada Goose 196 American Black Duck 200 Mallard 106 Northern Pintail 1 (male) Common Goldeneye 16 Hooded Merganser 2 (1 male, 1 female) Common Merganser 36 Bald Eagle 5 (4 adult, 1 immature) Northern Harrier 1 (male) Red-tailed Hawk 2 (1 adult, 1 immature) American Coot 1 Ring-billed Gull 314 Herring Gull 600 Great Black-backed Gull 35 Rock Dove 250 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 9 Hairy Woodpecker 1 (female) Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 American Crow 13 crow sp. 107 Carolina Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 2 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 5 Winter Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 78 Song Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 18 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 8 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================