Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:28:28 -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 At Piney Run Park 8/24/02: Great Blue Heron 3 Green Heron 2 Canada Goose 8 Wood Duck 3 Mallard 14 Blue-winged Teal 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 female, sometimes summers here, may breed Coot 11 adults, no evidence of breeding Killdeer 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 4 Ring-billed Gull 1 At Liberty Lake 8/25/02, four locations checked: Murray Road, Route 32 = bridge, Oakland Road, and Route 26 west bridge. Total followed by = numbers for each site in parentheses. Great Blue Heron 7 (4,2,1,0) Great Egret 2 (2,0,0,0) Canada Goose 1,150 (432,350,193,175) Mallard 1 (0,0,1,0) Killdeer 78 (63,9,0,6) Semipalmated Plover 5 (5,0,0,0) Lesser Yellowlegs 8 (8,0,0,0) Solitary Sandpiper 1 (1,0,0,0) Spotted Sandpiper 6 (2,2,0,2) Semipalmated Sandpiper 84 (84,0,0,0) Least Sandpiper 27 (24,1,0,2) BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 2 (1,0,0,1) Pectoral Sandpiper 22 (22,0,0,0) FORSTER'S TERN 1 (0,0,1,0) a molting adult Despite yesterday's heavy rains the water level at Liberty is lower = than last week. The upper end of the lake is at the mouth of Beaver Run = and the Murray Road site will soon be all grass and no water. The route = 32 site has the mudflat under the bridge and the route 26 site has its = mudflat almost at the bridge. 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 =========================================================================