Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:50:52 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM> Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM> From: Michael Bowen <dhmbowen@YAHOO.COM> Subject: MD and DC sightings Comments: cc: Voice of the Naturalist <voice@capaccess.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Here are some sightings made at Little Seneca Lake, Black Hill Regional Park, Montgomery Co., MD, on Friday afternoon, November 23: 3 PIED-BILLED GREBE 8 RING-NECKED DUCK 20+ BUFFLEHEAD CA. 20 RUDDY DUCK 6 AMERICAN COOT and that's just about if for the waterfowl. Very slow this year so far. In the Ten-mile Creek area of the park, I had all the local woodpeckers except for Y-B Sapsucker. As the locals know, this park is a great place for RED-HEADED WOODPECKER (1 heard only), which can be found in several places within the park.There was also a male PURPLE FINCH in the 10-Mile Creek area and 2 FOX SPARROWS along the road past the public boat ramp in the north of the park. Today, Saturday, November 24, Kenilworth Park in NE DC had: 1 PALM WARBLER (western form) numerous SAVANNAH SPARROWS 1 FOX SPARROW Later this morning, John Hubbell and I searched the gulls along the Anacostia River from the Benning Rd. bridge down through Anacostia Park, but failed to find any Lesser Black-backed. The 4 familiar local species were well represented, with a substantial number of LAUGHING GULLS at one of the loafing areas. Apart from a few Mallards, only ducks we saw on the Anacostia River were 4 RUDDY DUCK over by the Navy Yard. The "Anacostia Wetlands" (now thoroughly dried out) had lots of SONG SPARROWS, along with WHITE-THROATED and FIELD SPARROWS. John and I moved on to Hains Point, where we got two groups of HORNED GREBE, one group of 5 over toward the airport and a group of 16 very close to the railing along the exit road in the northwest part of Hains Point, together with 4 BUFFLEHEAD. (A few BUFFLEHEAD and HORNED GREBE were also to be seen on the Tidal Basin this morning.) John moved on to the mouth of 4-Mile Run south of National Airport, and I'm sure he'll post a report here if he saw anything of note. I stopped by Georgetown Reservoir (D.C.) on the way home. Apart from the usual 3 gull species, only birds of note were 2 PIED-BILLED GREBE and 68 RING-NECKED DUCK. Mike Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================