Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:30:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Atlas block) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Went looking for the pair of HORNED LARKS I found last week. Was delighted to find the male singing enthusiastically. There were a half dozen pipits wandering through the grass. New arrivals were GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a very early AMERICAN BITTERN. Sparrows were fantastic with a dozen SAVANNAHS in drop dead spring plumage. FOX SPARROWS bursting with snippets of song, SWAMP SPARROWS chipping throughout the grass and a few AMERICAN TREES feeding in the weeds. GEESE were on the move with 600 migrants in the few hours I was out. 4 WOOD DUCKS were the first I have seen this spring and 2 drake GREEN WING TEAL were attentive to a single female. 8 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS were the only other waterfowl seen beside the ever present mallards. Bonnie Ott (field trip chair) Ellicott city, Howard County Maryland bonnie1163@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================