Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:02:39 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Ft Frederick and Big Pool - late report In-Reply-To: <91D1D51C2955D111B82B00805F199895090D946A@aples2.jhuapl.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, Late report of Ft Frederick State Park and Big Pool area on April 7 and 8. This is part of my camping with Maryland Company Wayne's Light Infantry Corp of living history event of "1776". Birding was slow all day Sat with overcast and light rain on and off. Late sat afternoon, good birds seen around Big Pool. 8 Canada Goose 1 Mallard 2 Wood Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal 4 Turkey Vulture 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Osprey 3 American Kestrel 4 Mourning Dove 6 Chimney Swift 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 4 Eastern Phoebe 418 Tree Swallow 22 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 57 Barn Swallow 5 American Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee (no Black-capped anywhere) 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 Eastern Bluebird (some at firing range) 5 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 4 Cedar Waxwing 5 Eurpoean Starling 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Cardinal 1 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 51 Common Grackle (flyby) 11 American Goldfinch 3 House Finch 1 Purple Finch - Sunday 41 species At the marshy pond near Big Pool, long stream of 405 Tree Swallow, 20 N. Rough-wings, 51 Barn Swallows and 6 Chimney Swifts headed NE. 13 other Tree and 6 Barn hanging around the park and over the fort. 2 N Roughwings and 1 Bank Swallows at the river going upriver. At the same time as the swallows, 1 Osprey, 1 N. Harrier and 3 kestrels headed NE over the pond. Pileated Woodpecker seen over the fort toward the picnic area below the hill while on guard duty at the barracks before headed over to the the hall for the dance. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================