Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:54:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: DAVID FARNER Subject: Black Hill Regional Park MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I spent a few hours this afternoon at Black Hill Regional Park mainly looking for waterfowl. The best area was along the Ten Mile Creek Road entrance where there were 30 American Wigeon, 25 Ring-necked Duck, 7 Bufflehead, 2 Wood Duck, 4 Tundra Swan, and plenty of Mallards and Canada Geese. Also had 2 Pileated Woodpeckers, flickers, Downy and Red-bellied woodpecker. The area around the Clarksburg Road bridge had a few Bufflehead, 1 DC Cormorant, about 10 Pied-billed Grebe and dozens of coots and Canada geese. Before I left home for work this morning I had two Y-B Sapsuckers in my Ellicott City yard, meaning that for the day I had seen every normal mid-Atlantic woodpecker except Redheaded and Hairy. So I headed into the main area of the park and found 2 Redheaded WP in their usual location on the snags below parking lot #9. Also found 13 Hooded Merganser. Realizing I only needed Hairy for my 7 woodpecker day I spent some time in the woods, but came up with only more Downy, flicker and Red-bellied. C'est la vie. David Farner Ellicott City, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================