Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:06:52 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Sightings for Sat. Nov. 10 & Sun. Nov. 11 Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I also went to Rachel Carson Cons. Park on Saturday (Nov. 10) AM, just for a quick walkthrough. I found at least 2 dozen FOX SPARROWS, in the weedy fields on the right of the gravel driveway. As many as 5-6 feeding in groups together along the trail, and small groups scattered throughout the park. Great views! A young Red-tailed Hawk seems to be hanging around the area, calling intermittently, and flying around, perching in the woods, etc. Best find for me, however, was a very late GREEN HERON hunkered down along the edge of the Zion Rd. pond early (warming itself in the early AM sun), before I went into Rachel Carson, but not there when I went by again later. This is the latest I have seen a Green Heron in Montgomery County. On Sunday, Nov. 11, I went out to Triadelphia Lake Rd., Greenbridge Rd., Zion Pond and Lake Needwood. to check for sparrows and waterfowl. Along Triadelphia Lake Rd., 4 Savannah Sparrows, 1 Field and a few Song Sparrows near the fields at the top of the hill. On the reservoir, from Greenbridge Rd. 3 American Coots (unusual for the reservoir), and 4 Hooded Mergansers. Seen from the fireroad area, a raft of about 30 Bufflehead, and in that raft was a single male LONG-TAILED DUCK, and a male COMMON GOLDENEYE. Something black and white on the water way up at the top of the reservoir (it could've been anything from an alcid to a horned grebe, I just had no way to know). It was getting very windy, and the bird was SO far away, and the scope shake was terrible. It looked interesting, though. Lots of Ring-billed Gulls around, Belted Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron, too. No shorebirds save for a few Killdeer, but lots of great habitat. Zion Rd. pond produced a fly-across adult Cooper's Hawk, but not much in the way of waterfowl. I had a Sharpie fly by on the way to Lake Needwood. Nothing terribly interesting at Lake Needwood, some Ring-necks and Ruddies, Hooded Mergs, lots of geese, a single Bufflehead. Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================