Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:23:53 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt. R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Rough-winged Swallow in Howard MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I forgot to add, another unusual bird at Centennial this morning was a fly-over of a Common Merganser. C. Merg is quite unusual at Centennial, even more so in view of the dearth thereof at Triadelphia the day before. Kurt Schwarz Howard County GoAwayBird@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Schwarz" To: Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Rough-winged Swallow in Howard > Six people showed up for the Howard County Bird Club's walk around > Centennial Lake. The highlight was a Rough-winged Swallow, certainly > the first that anyone in the group had seen this year. Waterfowl were > sparse, a single Pied-billed Grebe, some Canadas, Mallards, and Ring-necks. > 36 species total. In the wierd department, there was a Moscovy present, > very habituated to humans. An indpenedent birder informed us that the > bird was present on Saturday, also. > > Saturday, 16 March, a male Common Goldeneye and a male Long-tailed Duck > were present at Triadelphia. These birds were seen in the morning by > the HowCo Bird Club trip. I didn't get out there until 3:15 p.m. Both > birds were swimming together, and could be seen from Greenbridge, both > the boat ramp and the gas pipeline area. 5 Horned Grebes were visible from > the dam, as well as 19 Black Ducks. All these looks were long, a scope > was required. Pine Warblers were singing up a storm at Greenbridge and > Big Branch. > > Kurt Schwarz > Howard County > GoAwayBird@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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================