Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:29:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Southern Kent Co birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I decided to check out some of the boat landings along the Chester River = west of Chestertown on Saturday, I liked them so well I checked them out = again on Sunday with an extension to the Chespeake Farms viewing pond = and Eastern Neck. In the listings below I have cited the highest number = from each of the two days for each species listed. Quaker Neck Landing 300 Lesser Scaup (3 Mar) 55 Canvasback (3 Mar) 16 Red-breasted Mergansers (3 Mar) 6 Ring-necked Ducks (3 Mar) 2 Double-crested Cormorants (2 Mar) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk (2 Mar) Cliffs City Landing 400 Ruddy Ducks (2 March) 1500 Scaup (sp) almost all of those I could ID were Lessers, but I did = see one definite Greater (2 & 3 Mar) 12 Bufflehead (2 Mar) 6 Com. Goldeneye (2 Mar) 80 Red-breasted Mergansers (2 Mar) 3 Bald Eagles (3 Mar) 55 Northern Pintail (3 Mar) 2 Gadwall (3 Mar) 1 Horned Grebe (3 Mar) Broad neck Landing and Road 68 Green-winged Teal (3 Mar, on flood ponds north of the landing) 2 Northern Pintail (3 Mar, also on flood pond) 2 Com. Mergansers (drakes, seen both days, also 3 at the Mill Pond on = Ricauds Branch Rd on 3 Mar) 2 Bald Eagles (3 Mar) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk (3 Mar) 1 ad male Merlin (3 Mar) 6 Am. Kestrels (2 Mar) 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets (2 Mar) White-crowned Sparrow (imm. on 2 Mar, ad on 3 Mar) Chesapeake Farms (3 Mar) 14 Green-winged Teal 60 Northern Pintail 40 Northern Shoveler 2 Gadwall Eastern Neck NWR (3 Mar) 150+ Tundra Swans (down from two weeks ago) 135 Lesser Scaup 30 Bufflehead 30 Com. Goldeneye 1 Greater Yellowlegs (at the bridge) That's all for now...Good Birding everybody Walter Ellison MD/DC Atlas Coordinator Chestertown, MD =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 =========================================================================