Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 23:26:53 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD 5/7-5/8/2001 Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fort Smallwood Park, MD 5/7 was very slow, which might have been expected on East winds. Little else was moving, but there were two Semipalmated Plovers on the beach. 5/8 was much better, not so much in quantity but in quality: Second Mississippi Kite, unfortunately seen only briefly. 5/7/2001 Monday BV 3 TV 11 OS 1 TOTAL 15 HOURS 5 5/8/2001 Tuesday BV 1 TV 35 OS 2 MK 1 NH 1 SS 6 CH 2 BW 2 ML 1 TOTAL 51 HOURS 6.5 YEAR-TO-DATE BV 293 TV 4522 OS 408 MK 2 BE 50 NH 75 SS 1870 CH 405 RS 226 BW 569 RT 312 AK 331 ML 48 PG 1 U 49 TOTAL 9161 HOURS 393.9 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================