Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:54:08 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD 3/29-4/1 2001 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fort Smallwood Park, MD 3/29/2001 Thursday Weathered Out 3/30/2001 Friday Cloudy and cool. 100+ Bonaparte's Gulls were the main feature. TV 5 OS 2 SS 3 AK 4 TOTAL 14 HOURS 3 3/31/2001 Data unavailable 4/1/2001 Slow for hawks under threatening skies, but the Merlin and the migration of other birds held our interest. See below. TV 31 OS 7 CH 2 RS 1 AK 5 ML 1 TOTAL 47 HOURS 5.2 First Laughing Gull of the season. Approx. 300 Bonaparte's Gulls in the river all day, many feeding on the beach like shorebirds. Lots of Herring Gulls flying north. More Tree Swallows on the move. 100+ Horned Grebes in the river along with 200 Bufflehead. A lone American Pipit feeding on the beach. YEAR-TO-DATE BV 171 TV 2929 OS 45 BE 15 NH 10 SS 153 CH 171 RS 200 RT 172 AK 95 ML 2 U 27 TOTAL 3990 HOURS 161.7 Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River, 11 miles south of Baltimore, MD. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================