Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:37:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds 9/1/02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Birds seen at Liberty Lake with 4 sites visited (Murray Rd, Route 32 = bridge, Oakland Rd, Route 26 west bridge): Great Blue Heron 9 (5,0,2,2) Great Egret 3 (2,0,0,1) Canada Goose 12 (9,2,0,1) Green-winged Teal 2 (0,2,0,0) Semipalmated Plover 3 (1,0,0,2) Killdeer 35 (19,8,0,8) Lesser Yellowlegs 22 (21,1,0,0) includes a flock of 16 that dropped = in while it was raining Solitary Sandpiper 1 (0,1,0,0) Spotted Sandpiper 4 (1,3,0,0) Semipalmated Sandpiper 38 (25,12,0,1) Least Sandpiper 32 (15,8,0,9) White-rumped Sandpiper 2 (2,0,0,0) Pectoral Sandpiper 7 (6,1,0,0) Ring-billed Gull 2 (0,0,2,0) Forster's Tern 11 (0,0,11,0) At Piney Run Park: Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 1 Wood Duck 3 Mallard 25 Black Duck 2 Green-winged Teal 3 Blue-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Duck 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Coot 11 Liberty Lake continues to drop despite the rains. The upper end of = the lake is now below the mouth of Beaver Run. As grass grows over the = mudflat there it will soon no longer be good shorebirds. 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 =========================================================================