Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:12:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: Birds of Talbot County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Birding here in Tunis Mills the past few days and an excursion on = 12/04 to Black Walnut Point on the tip of Tilghman Island has yielded = the following highlights: Today - an Osprey! Fishing over Leeds Creek, and then perching for = awhile on one of our shoreline food table trees. As mild as it is, this = bird may stay around for our Christmas Count. Yesterday, at Black Walnut Point - hordes of Long-tailed Ducks and = Buffleheads; a sprinkling of Common Goldeneye, and a few Horned Grebes. = Several Common Loons, several Cormorants, one high-flying flock of = Tundra Swan, one Surf Scoter and one White-winged Scoter. (No success = in the search for Gannets from our side of the Bay.) Land birds = included great numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers, flocks of migrating = Goldfinch, one flock of Cedar Waxwings, all three nuthatch species, and = Song, Swamp, Field and White-throated Sparrows. (Others have reported = Crossbills recently migrating across Black Walnut Point, but I could not = hear nor see any on this day.) On the pilings at Claiborne - three Forster's Terns. One lone Killdeer on the mudflat at the end of the park near Knapps = Narrows (Tilghman). Also on 12/04, along the roadsides close to my home (Bruffs Island = Road and Copperville Road) there were a total of eleven (11) Delmarva = Fox Squirrels! Four in a group in the field around a certain tree along = Bruffs Island Road near Gregory Road; Five distributed along the = roadside tree line out in the first field beside Copperville Road after = the turn-off from Bruffs Island Road; one about a mile farther up Bruffs = Island Road beyond the Copperville Road intersection, and the eleventh = along Copperville Road after the sharp turn toward the village of = Copperville. The warm balmy day sure brought them out! Earlier in the week, along my driveway (hopefully waiting for = Christmas Count Day) there were several Fox Sparrows and three Hermit = Thrushes. A walk along Copperville Road turned up a Brown Creeper, both = Kinglet species, several Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Pileated, Downy, = Hairy, and Red-bellied Woodpeckers, and several Flickers. Within the past week my feeders have been visited by a single Pine = Siskin and a single Purple Finch amongst the 20 or more Goldfinches. Good Birding! Les Roslund Lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton, MD=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================