Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:21:37 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dick Homan Subject: Edwards Ferry area, C&O Canal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A beautiful walk on an empty towpath from Edwards Ferry to a couple miles upriver this morning produced 33 species. Nothing on the river except 1 cormorant. DC Cormorant (1, on snag in river) Canada Goose (couple hundred in flocks flying downriver) Turkey Vulture COOPER'S HAWK (1) Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker (8) Downy Woodpecker (5) Hairy Woodpecker (1) Northern Flicker (3) Pileated Woodpecker (4--two pairs) Blue Jay American Crow (vast numbers in nearby fields) Fish Crow Eastern Bluebird ROBIN (300-plus, all along the canal) GRAY CATBIRD (1) Northern Mockingbird Starling White-breasted Nuthatch (9) Carolina Wren Winter Wren (1) Golden-crowned Kinglet (5) Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Goldfinch Yellow-rumped Warbler Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (abundant) Junco Eastern Towhee Northern Cardinal Common Grackle RUSTY BLACKBIRD (2) Dick Homan Bethesda, MD HomanRL@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================