Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:43:15 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: The Cummins' Casa Subject: Frederick County Field Trip Comments: To: WV-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed In on-again, off-again rain with temperatures in the mid to high 60's, members of Potomac Valley Audubon Society went on a field trip into nearby Frederick County in Maryland. We drove first to Nolands Ferry along the C&O canal and then on to Lilypons. The red-bellys at Nolands Ferry where putting on quite a courtship show and fish crows seemed abundant. It was also sweet to hear the spring peepers and see the cabbage white butterflies. It was also nice to run into another birding group...this is so cool! The following lists the order of encounter. The break is for the additional birds we encountered after leaving the C&O at Nolands Ferry on our way to and at Lilypons. Red-tailed hawk American Kestrel Tree Swallow Cardinal European Starling Tufted Titmouse Carolina Chickadee Canada Goose American Goldfinch White-breasted Nuthatch American Crow Fish Crow Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-Bellied Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay Common Grackle Song Sparrow Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-shouldered Hawk Northern Raven Coopers Hawk Eastern Meadowlark Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Red-winged blackbird Great Blue Heron Mallard Common Snipe White-throated Sparrow Wood-Duck Field Sparrow Northern Mockingbird Killdeer Junco Common Yellow-shafted Flicker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diana Cummins Harpers Ferry, WV Potomac Valley Audubon Society montex@intrepid.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================