Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:34:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Southern MD -- Harris' Sparrow NOT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Baltimore Bird Club had a field trip to Point Lookout and other southern Maryland locations. We did not see the Harris' Sparrow, and none of the other birders we talked to had seen it either. Highlights of the trip were: about half a dozen Gannets passing fairly close to the point and several Brown Pelicans; 3 scoter species, mainly Surf Scoters, all of them quite distant; lots of Common Loons everywhere, with the best being one very close to the fishing pier that we could clearly watch as it swam underwater chasing a school of tiny fish; Brown-headed Nuthatches at Fort Lincoln, seen through a scope by some; scads of chattering Bluebirds at the Point; and six species of woodpeckers within about 10 minutes at Stoakley Road in Calvert County -- all the Maryland woodpeckers except Red-headed. Most of the expected waterfowl species were at the Point but almost all were quite distant. We rustled up a total of 77 species for the day. It was a beautiful late-spring day, even if it was December 1 on the calendar, with the Bay waters as calm as I've ever seen them. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================