Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:12:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Webb Subject: Kelp gull, Pax NAS, Pt. Lookout Sat. Feb 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Baltimore Bird Club had a field trip to Patuxent Naval Air Station and added Shrimpy and Pt. Lookout and Stoakely Road (Calvert County) to the trip. The Kelp Gull ("Shrimpy") was on his post 8:20 am as we stopped by on our way down to Pax NAS. On the Naval Air Station, we failed to find any Longspurs or Snow Buntings, but did see Savannah Sparrows, Horned Larks, Snipe, and two adult male N. Harriers and a singing Fox Sparrow with another heard chipping nearby. Waterfowl there were the same as at Point Lookout later: Com. Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Long-tailed Ducks, Horned Grebes, and Common Loons. At Point Lookout, we added Gannets, one adult Brown Pelican, a distant scoter sp (probably male Surf Scoter but only glimpsed) and Red-throated Loons and a lone Bonaparte's Gull, and also saw an Otter in the ponds, and near Fort Lincoln Pine Warblers, a Brown Creeper, both Kinglets, a Catbird and a Thrasher, and several Brown-headed Nuthatches. We subsequently visited Stoakley Road in Calvert County west of Prince Frederick, garnering all the woodpeckers except Red-headed. In the three visits to that site I've done, I have seen the same 6 species plus an active, vocal group of Red-headed one of the three visits (thereby completing the 7-species sweep on that occasion). All in all a nice trip, 71 species recorded by 13 observers. Pete Webb Baltimore, MD (USA) pwebb@bcpl.net (home, after 6) pew@niroinc.com (work, 830-5 M-F) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================