Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:32:18 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Horsehead Wetlands Center 9/30/01 In-Reply-To: <161.1aa08b8.28e8b09b@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is the report for Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland on 9/30/01 Observer: Kevin Graff Covered at Horsehead, Cabin Creek Rd, Perrys Corner Rd., and Bennett Point Rd. 5 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Snowy Egret 2 Mute Swan (Cabin Creek Rd.) 2,542 Canada Goose 62 Mallard 12 American Black Duck (8 - Cabin Creek Rd.) 1 Wood Duck 2 Green-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 2 White-winged Scoter (Prospect Bay) 3 Black Vulture (Perrys Corner Rd.) 29 Turkey Vulture (4 Perrys, 9 Bennett) 1 Bald Eagle 2 Northern Harrier (both females) 23 Sharp-shinned hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 7 Broad-winged Hawk (headed north over town) 16 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Osprey 1 American Kestrel (Bennett Point Rd.) 1 Killdeer 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper? (poor light) 1 Laughing Gull (Cabin Creek Rd.) 6 Ring-billed Gull (1 - Cabin Creek Rd.) 1 Herring Gull 1 Common Tern 3 Forster's Tern 1 Royal Tern 17 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift (town) 1 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker (4 flyby) 3 Horned Lark (flyby at Bennett Point Rd.) 64 Tree Swallow (staging) 36 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 19 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 Eastern Bluebird (Bennett Point Rd.) 3 Swainson's Thrush 2 Hermit Thrush 11 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird (Canib Creek Rd.) 7 Northern Mockingbird 104 European Starling 2 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 6 Northern Cardinal 14 Field Sparrow 25 Savannah Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 26 Red-winged Blackbird 153 Common Grackle 3 House Finch 222 American Goldfinch (all over the refuge) 62 species Strong N wind brought several good size fallout of passerine. One flock of 14 Field and 1 Savannah Sparrow in front of green building and a sharpie flush out flock of 24 Savannah Sparrows out of waist high weedy field near green building. Incredible number of goldfinches everywhere, this is highest numbers I ever seen. Many at feeders, several flocks in one tree near parking lot, and several at private road near observation tower. Hawks also scattered the place. Many geese headed NE over Horsehead to their feeding ground few miles away. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================