Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 19:06:59 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Maryland Birds - Allegany & Charles (Tundra Swan) Comments: To: SMAS , voice Comments: cc: Marshall , Jlstasz@aol.com, Greg Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks Gwen Brewer and I did some county listing on Friday, November 02 in = Allegany Co. We started at the Canal Terminus, spent a couple hours at = Spring Gap, then up to North Branch, and I stopped at Rocky Gap on the = way home. Nothing out of the ordinary but some new ticks for my total = tick list. Highlights were: 3 Pied-billed Grebe - Terminus and Rocky Gap 35 Canada Geese - Rocky Gap 40+ Mallards - Terminus and Rocky Gap 2 Gadwall at Terminus* 9 Killdeer between Terminus and Rocky Gap 1 Pectoral Sandpiper* at Terninus 1 Red-tailed Hawk - Spring Gap 1 Imm. Cooper's Hawk chasing Pigeons near Terminus ? Turkey Vulture 2 Mourning Dove ~300 Rock Dove - Cumberland 7 American Coot - Rocky Gap 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 4 Pileated Woodpecker 6 Blue Jay ? American Crow 1 Fish Crow ~10 Black-capped Chickadee ~12 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 7 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren* 4 Ruby-crown Kinglet* 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Brown Creeper* Cedar Waxwing - Heard? 6 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird ~ 40 Song Sparrow ~35 White-throated Sparrow 5 White-crowned Sparrow - PPG pond fields 10 Dark-eyed Junco 7 Northern Cardinal 45 Rusty Blackbirds* - PPG fields 1 sub adult male/female Purple Finch* - PPG; The bird was singing and = calling. Do females sing? ~ 40 American Goldfinch Starlings and House Sparrow were recorded also.=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- * =3D county birds -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- This morning (11/03) yard birds included my first flights of Tundra = Swans of the season. The yard is in Waldorf, Charles Co. I had two = flights. The first (?) flight was heard at 6:30 AM. The second flight = was at 7:30, a group of 35 birds heading south. Other yard birds of = note today included: 12+ Canada Geese 1 Imm female Sharp-shinned Hawk that buzzed me on the deck. She much = have seen the Pileated Woodpecker image on my t-shirt. This is my = second accipiter attack. The first was in Arizona in 1986 when a = Cooper's Hawk attacked me near its nest. The latest attack was = unprovoked. (I support a hawks on leash law.) It was cool to watch the = bird hover, measure the bird feeder station from up high, fold her = wings, swoop into the feeder station from about 400 feet. She missed = her target. She turned around and headed directly for me on the deck. = I quickly shifted position and she missed me also. She stopped in the = white oak tree behind me. Looked back and left the area. The same or = another Sharp-shinned was circling over the house shortly after the = incident. =20 1 real Pileated Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch ~100 American Robin flying over head and heading south 4 Hermit Thrush - all pretty vocal early 8 Cedar Waxwing And the usual suspects. Siskins, Purple Finch, and the two species of = Kinglets were not to be identified today if they were here again. Enjoy your birds. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================