Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:53:14 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Ft. McHenry National Monument 9/26/01 In-Reply-To: <3BB239E2.C869CB14@dol.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Jim Peters led the last of the weekly series evening birdwalk (5th walk) at 6pm today and 7 observers saw about 31 species. Jim told us about the white morph Great Blue Heron "Great White Heron" that he saw this morning at the man-made marsh. We didn't see one. Jim is planning several birdwalks this fall, once a month on Sat. from 8am to about noon. He will let us know of a schedule. 17 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 17 Canada Goose 4 Mallard 1 Peregrine Falcon (seen well by Jim and myself) 18 Laughing Gull (several headed SE for Key Bridge) 55 Ring-billed Gull 67 Herring Gull 38 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Forster's Tern 36 Rock Dove 16 Mourning Dove 1 Northern Flicker 4 Chimney Swift 2 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 1 House Wren 1 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 51 European Starling 2 Nashville Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Song Sparrow 3 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle (flyby) 1 Brown-headed Cowbird (flyby) 5 House Finch 26 House Sparrow 31 species Mammal 1 Eastern Cottontail 7 Gray Squirrel Butterfly 42 Monarch 1 Red Admiral 1 Sachem? (in distance) Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================