Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:07:26 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Lake Elkhorn, Ruddy, HowCo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Interesting that the three other shorebirds would apparently fly in after you guys visited 10/3. Light was not great, the scope helped a lot. Glad to be of service concerning those ponds. Maybe next year I can get out with a net myself! ----- Original Message ----- From: "odenata" To: Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Lake Elkhorn, Ruddy, HowCo > Kurt, > > Bob & I were also at Lake Elkhorn on 10/3 but early p.m. and the 2 Great > Egrets were there but only shorebird was a Greater Yellowlegs. Glad others > are finding the mudflats. Certainly looks like the drained portion should > have some juicy items! > > Many thanks for mentioning the ponds behind the Giant in River Hill Shopping > Center. We stopped there today and were surprised to find three. The large > one with the diversity of emergent vegetation looks especially promising > although today the medium-sized one with the dense edging of bulrushes and > cattails was where the dragons were hanging out--such as they were. We'll > definitely add this site to those we check in future breeding seasons. > > Jo > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kurt R. Schwarz" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:58 PM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Lake Elkhorn, Ruddy, HowCo > > > > I visited the draining Lake Elkhorn in Columbia this afternoon > > 3:30-4:45. The following were present. > > > > Great Egret 2 > > Great Blue Heron 2 > > Green Heron 1 > > Ruddy Duck 1 (male) > > Ring-billed Gull 4 > > Greater Yellowlegs 2 > > Lesser Yellowlegs 1 > > Solitary Sandpiper 1 > > Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3-4 > > Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (female) > > > > I THINK there were White-throated Sparrows around, but I'm not positive, > > as I have relearned the chip note for the season yet! Actually had a > > Greater, Lesser, and Solitary in the scope all at once. Wonderfully > > instructive. And on a very positive note, the female Black-throated Blue > > was eating Tearthumb berries! > > > > Elkhorn is draining. There's already some nice mud at the end farthest > > from the dam. Plenty of deep water left for waterfowl, but it's now one > > of the few spots in HowCo with shorebird potential. To get there from > > rt. 32, get of on Broken Land Parkway, go north. Park in lot on right > > after Snowden River Parkway. > > > > Kurt Schwarz > > Howard County > > white-crown@home.com > > > > ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================