Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:48:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Marcia E. Balestri" Subject: New Year Fun Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I had the morning to do some pre-mid-winter count checking here in Frederick County. I managed the C&O, Lilypons and surrounds, and Audrey Carroll Audubon before I had to go. I was hoping for 50 species and ended up with 55, so not a bad day (for me - of course any day out is a good day!). Highlights (for me anyway) were 4 Common Snipe at Lilypons, 2 Fox Sparrows and Eastern Towhee at Audrey Carroll, Black-capped Chickadee at my feeder, and a 6 woodpecker day (I didn't really go to the good places to find the Red-headed). Looked hard for Horned Lark, but no luck. I also didn't have a chance to owl--maybe later tonight! List for the day is below: Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Tundra Swan Mallard Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Killdeer Common Snipe Ring-billed Gull Rock Dove Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow -- Marcia E. Balestri Frederick, MD mebalestri@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================