Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:50:52 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC SIGHTINGS 8/15 Comments: To: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I accompanied Mary Paul on one of her periodic surveys of Heritage Island in the Anacostia River, DC, this morning. I later paid a later visit to the part of Kingman Lake north of Benning Rd. Species seen only at this latter location are marked NORTH only on the list below. Not that Heritage Island is currently not open to the public. 6 GREAT BLUE HERON 3 GREAT EGRET 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON (Immature) 2 WOOD DUCK 1 OSPREY 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (NORTH ONLY) 20 KILLDEER 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS 4 LESSER YELLOWLEGS 4 SOLITARY SANDPIPER 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPER 10 LEAST SANDPIPER (NORTH ONLY) 10 PECTORAL SANDPIPER 1 BELTED KINGFISHER (NORTH ONLY) Mike Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================