Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:12:23 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bill Schreitz Subject: Horsehead & Westinghouse Pond MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello I went to Horsehead Wildlife Refuge Sunday morning and to the East Blind at Lake Knap. The water was about 2" deep some twenty feet in from the edge w/ a couple of feet of mud only on the west side. The pond was lively and the sky was gray, but no rain until 11:00. I saw the following: greater yellowlegs 10 lesser yellowlegs 60+ short-billed dowitcher 2 wood duck 4 osprey 3 snowy egret 4 great blue heron 5 green heron 2 (in trench along north side of path on north side of lake) semipalmated sandpiper 8 least sandpiper 6 semipalmated plover 4 (17 more at the end of the marsh walk past the large tower on the other side of Lake Knap) peeps (sp) 15 barn swallow 6 ring billed gull 6 American goldfinch 2 double crested cormorant 2 Amer black duck 26 Before I crossed the Bay Bridge around 6:30 AM , I checked the Westinghouse pond from the side road near the inspection station (near no parking sign) and saw the following: great blue heron 9 great egret 3 green heron 1 pectoral sandpiper 7 semipalmated plover 2 least sandpiper 8 solitary sandpiper 1 double crested cormorant 2 graylag goose 1 wood duck 3 Am black duck 7 friendly state trooper 1 WILLIAM B SCHREITZ CABINETMAKER INC 1806 VIRGINIA STREET ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21041 cabmkrwbs@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================