Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:43:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Yellow-breasted Chat at Loch Raven Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit John Landers and I birded Loch Raven Reservoir, in Baltimore County, this morning. We had a total of 44 species. The highlight was a close encounter with a Yellow-breasted Chat as we walked through a brushy area of the watershed. The full list of sightings follows: Pied-billed Grebe 11 Turkey Vulture 5 Canada Goose 1000 Gadwall 2 American Wigeon 100 American Black Duck 11 Mallard 21 Ring-necked Duck 20 Bufflehead 60 Hooded Merganser 7 Ruddy Duck 1 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 3 American Coot 200 Killdeer 22 Ring-billed Gull 89 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 13 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 20 Fish Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 13 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 26 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 18 Cedar Waxwing 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Field Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 30 Dark-eyed Junco 6 Northern Cardinal 16 American Goldfinch 9 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================