Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:50:28 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dick Homan Subject: Blackwater NWR, Dorchester County, 6-12-01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A muggy, hazy Blackwater and surrounding roads turned up more birds than I expected today. In 5 hours of driving, stopping, and walking some trails, I wound up with 62 species, including: Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great and Snowy Egret Osprey (counted 16) Bald Eagle (4, all imm.) Wild Turkey (2, in a field just off the refuge) Northern Bobwhite (5 heard various places) Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs were only shorebirds Caspian and Forster's Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Ruby-throated Hummingbird (9, mostly at Visitors Center feeders) Red-bellied, Downy, Hairy, Pileated Woodpecker and Northern Flicker Great-crested Flycatcher (7, including several young) Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin, Tree, Bank, Cliff (1) Swallow Wood Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird (10, including several young) Yellow and Pine Warbler, Ovenbird (1 heard on Egypt Rd), Common Yellowthroat Summer Tanager (1 male, singing and giving good looks, in pines on both sides of Wildlife Drive by Woods Trail parking area, where new blacktop road from new administrative center joins Wildlife Drive) Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting Chipping, Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole (3--a male, a female and a first-year male) Dick Homan Bethesda, MD HomanRL@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================