Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:58:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Marko, Thomas L. GS BUMED" Subject: North Branch Stream Valley Park, 9 Feb 02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Olney, Montgomery County, 9 Feb 02, 0800-1100: A morning walk, on another unseasonably mild winter day, through North Branch Stream Valley Park adjacent to the Norbeck Country Club produced 27 species. Highlights included several brilliant blue Eastern Bluebirds along the golf course edge and a pair of Red-tailed Hawks patrolling the tree line. Birds observed included: Great Blue Heron - 1 Canada Goose - 10 Mallard - 7 Turkey Vulture - 6 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Mourning Dove - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 25 Carolina Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - 10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Carolina Wren - 1 (many singing) Eastern Bluebird - 12 Northern Mockingbird - 1 European Starling - 10 Northern Cardinal - 4 Field Sparrow - 20 Song Sparrow - 25 White-throated Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco - 10 Common Grackle - 5 House Finch - 8 American Goldfinch - 2 Tom Marko Olney, MD MOS-MCC tlmarko@us.med.navy.mil ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================