Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:16:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD March 3, 2001 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A mild day with continued west winds and temperatures in the fifties resulted in nine species. Were they fleeing the approaching storm? Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles were pouring by. Canvasbacks continued to move and 18 Horned Grebes were observed on the River. And, we logged the first migrating OSPREY of the season! March 3, 2001 BV 7 TV 75 OS 1 BE 1 RS 3 RT 11 SS 3 CH 1 AK 1 TOTAL 103 HOURS 6.2 YEAR-TO-DATE (Includes corrections to yesterday's post.) BV 24 TV 304 OS 1 BE 7 SS 8 CH 5 RS 22 RT 35 AK 2 U 3 TOTAL 411 HOURS 41.3 Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River, 11 miles south of Baltimore, Maryland. All numbers are unofficial. Sue A. Ricciardi 1132 Ferber Avenue Arnold, Maryland 21012 susie@idsonline.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================