Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:36:53 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: 80 Species in Dorchester (Sedge Wren) Jim Brighton and I birded for 5.5 Hours Sunday morning (9/1/02) in Dorchester County (Elliot's Island and Blackwater). Among the 80 species noted we had Sedges Wren and Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow -both at B.W.NWR... The list: Little Blue Heron (white phase) Great-blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Canada Goose Mute Swan Mallard American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Green-Winged Teal Double-crested Cormorant Osprey Northern Harrier Bald Eagle (imm & mat) Red-tailed Hawk (imm) Cooper's Hawk American Kestral Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Great Horned Owl (voice) Turkey Northern Bobwhite (voice) Common Moorhen Killdeer Greater Yellow Legs Lesser Yellow Legs Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Least Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull Great Black-backed Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Forster's Tern Least Tern Royal Tern Caspian Tern Belted Kingfisher Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Northern flicker Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee (voice) Acadian Flycatcher Blue Jay Purple Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Bank Swallow American Crow Tufted Titmouse Carolina Chickadee Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Sedge Wren Eastern Bluebird Veery Northern Mockingbird European Starling Red-eyed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Ovenbird American Redstart Pine Warbler Black and White Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Common Yellowthroat Northern Cardinal House Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Red-winged Balckbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Finch ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================