Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:35:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD 4/21/2001 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fort Smallwood Park, MD 4/21/2001 Saturday The strong southwest winds that are good for us never materialized and the sky clouded over, but we still had a good day. Cooper's Hawks and Ospreys put on mating displays. A Clapper Rail was flushed and we saw the first dragonfly of the season. BV 1 TV 43 OS 29 NH 6 SS 92 CH 24 BW 19 RT 16 AK 8 ML 2 UF 2 TOTAL 242 HOURS 9.5 YEAR-TO-DATE BV 260 TV 3958 OS 252 BE 39 NH 53 SS 973 CH 313 RS 225 BW 207 RT 250 AK 289 ML 17 PG 1 U 41 TOTAL 6878 HOURS 275.6 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================