Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:11:59 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Loch Raven 10/30/01 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit At John Landers suggestion, some of the people who have been birding at Lake Roland Tuesday mornings, met at Stone Hill Road this morning to walk into the Skeet Shooting area. The Skeet Shooting area is not open for shooting on Mondays and Tuesdays. Now that the Lake Roland walks are over until the spring, John will lead walks on most Tuesday mornings at Lock Raven Reservoir. Today we saw fifty species, and the highlight of the trip was our final bird--an immature Golden Eagle--seen from the peninsular off of Loch Raven Drive. The full list, with approximate numbers follows: Pied-billed Grebe 6 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 6 Canada Goose 1000 Gadwall 20 American Wigeon 100 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 8 Northern Shoveler 5 Ring-necked Duck 50 Lesser Scaup 4 Bufflehead 50 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Golden Eagle 1 American Coot 400 Killdeer 3 Ring-billed Gull 6 Herring Gull 5 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 10 American Crow 15 Carolina Chickadee 14 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 5 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 10 Northern Mockingbird 4 European (Common) Starling 100 Cedar Waxwing 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 30 Chipping Sparrow 7 Field Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 20 Dark-eyed Junco 4 Northern Cardinal 7 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Rusty Blackbird 1 Purple Finch 2 Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================