Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:00:26 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Turkey Point Warblers and Hawk Watch Kick Off for 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Leader: Sean McCandless Participants: Peter Mann The hard-core birded while the rest of the club lay dry and warm in their beds! Overview: The warblers were dripping out of the trees. Total species: 52 Weather: Rain, followed by periods of heavy rain, interspersed with steady rain. Warblers: Blue-winged - 1 Northern Parula - 3 Chestnut-sided - 10 Magnolia - 5 Cape May -1 Black-throated Blue - 3 Black-throated Green - 7 Blackburnian - 1 Black-and-White - 10 American Redstart - 10 Ovenbird - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 5 Other birds: Mallard - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 4 Mourning Dove - 2 Chimney Swift - 10 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Eastern Wood Peewee - 5 Empid sp Flycatchers - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - 2 White-eyed Vireo - 10 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 50 American Crow - 2 Tree Swallow - 100 N. Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Bank Swallow - 10 Barn Swallow - 10 Carolina Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 15 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Carolina Wren - 10 House Wren - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 25 American Robin - 5 Catbird - 2 Brown Thrasher - 2 Northern Mockingbird - 3 Starling - 15 Cedar Waxwing - 50 Northern Cardinal - 25 Indigo Bunting - 2 Bobolink - 2 Common Grackle - 1 Baltimore Oriole - 2 American Goldfinch - 5 Number of times we were asked THE QUESTION (How far is it to the lighthouse)? - 2. What were those crazy people doing out on a morning like this? And for the hawk watch: 1 mature bald eagle at 8:00 am and 2 Osprey at 10:15 am Peter C. Mann Galena, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================