Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 22:43:55 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park, MD 5/24-5/27 2001 Comments: To: Birdhawk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please note my new e-mail address. =20 Fort Smallwood Park, MD Our good fortune continues. The tenth Mississippi Kite of the season appeared today (5/27). It was a one-year-old and was in sight from 2:05 = to 2:09 pm. We also had 6 Red-tails which is unusual this late in the = season and 8 Bald Eagles, several of which appeared to be juveniles. Immature Broadwings have been coming through the past several days. 5/24/2001 Thursday TV 16 OS 9 BE 2 SS 1 CH 1 BW 46 TOTAL 75 HOURS 5.8 =20 5/25 and 5/26 No counts - rain 5/27/2001 Sunday BV 1 TV 21 OS 11 MK 1 BE 8 CH 1 BW 18 RT 6 TOTAL 67 HOURS 5.5 =20 YEAR-TO-DATE BV 297 TV 4706 OS 483 MK 10 BE 70 NH 77 SS 1940 CH 413 RS 226 BW 679 RT 320 AK 333 ML 49 PG 1 U 51 TOTAL 9655 HOURS 457.4 =20 Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake=20 Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River, 11 miles south of Baltimore,=20 MD. All numbers are unofficial. =20 Sue A. Ricciardi 1132 Ferber Avenue Arnold, Maryland 21012 susier@starpower.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================