Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:23:09 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A trip to Liberty lake on 8/17/02 with Debbie Terry. The water = level continues to drop. Sites visited were Murray Road, Route 32 = bridge, Oakland Road, and Route 26 west bridge. Numbers in parentheses = are these 4 stops in this order. Great Blue Heron 11 (7,1,2,1) Great Egret 2 (2,0,0,0) Canada Goose 950 (300,395,5,250) Mallard 1 (1,0,0,0) Blue-winged Teal 3 (3,0,0,0) Semipalmated Plover 6 (6,0,0,0) Killdeer 55 (37,12,0,6) Lesser Yellowlegs 2 (2,0,0,0) Solitary Sandpiper 4 (3,1,0,0) Spotted Sandpiper 3 (1,1,0,1) Semipalmated Sandpiper 195 (175,5,0,15) Least Sandpiper 30 (25,0,0,5) Pectoral Sandpiper 13 (13,0,0,0) Ring-billed Gull 9 (0,0,9,0) As the water level continues to drop the Murray Road site will no longer = be attractive to the birds and sites farther down the lake will better, = particularly at Route 32. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =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 =========================================================================