Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:25:55 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD 4/25-4/27 2001 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fort Smallwood Park, MD 4/25/2001 Wednesday Northeast winds and low overcast did us in. OS 2 Hours 4.5 4/26/2001 Thursday Northeast winds and no clouds only slightly better. First Least Tern of the season. OS 5 NH 1 SS 3 CH 1 BW 1 RT 1 UA 1 TOTAL 13 HOURS 5 4/27/2001 West winds with partly cloudy skies most of the day made for a very pleasant day all the way around. Great look at a Merlin. Red-throated Loon. Lots of Rough-winged Swallows. Great Blue, Little Blue, and Black-crowned Night Herons and Great and Cattle Egrets. BV 3 TV 17 OS 15 BE 3 NH 2 SS 63 CH 3 BW 18 RT 1 AK 2 ML 2 TOTAL 129 HOURS 8.5 YEAR-TO-DATE BV 273 TV 4286 OS 314 BE 46 NH 72 SS 1554 CH 374 RS 226 BW 554 RT 301 AK 327 ML 33 PG 1 U 48 TOTAL 8409 HOURS 321.1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================