Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:03:06 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: Weekend Birds: Franklin's Gull, etc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks! I visited Garrett County of Saturday 10/5 to try to plug a few holes in my Year List. It was very windy, so land birding was difficult at best....I managed to find a 2 Black-capped Chickadees all day. Shorebirding was a but better. The best location was along the Youg. Res. accessed from Mill Run north of Friendsville. The tally there was: 1 Semipalmated Plover, 91 Killdeer, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Least Sandpiper, and 3 Pectoral Sandpipers. 2 Golden-crowned Kinglets were away from any know breeding area and were probably migrants. Trout Run WWTP near Oaklnad had 2 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Green-winged Teal, 2 Northern Pintail, and 40 Mallards. North Branch in Allegany County held 14 Killdeer, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Sandpiper, and 1 Least Sandpiper. Sunday, after the cold front went through was much more productive. There is a pool on the north side of the Easton Landfill, Talbot County which can be viewed by walking on top of the earthern berm along North Dover Road. Clearly the highlight was a juv. FRANKLIN'S GULL in with 400 or so Laughing Gulls. Also present were 6 Killdeer, 2 Semipalmated Plover, 4 Lesser Yellowlegs, 11 Pectorals, 23 Least, and 1 Stilt Sandpiper. A single American Pipit flew by as did 2 American Golden-Plover. Blackwalnut Pt. in Talbot was very birdy. Warblers included 16 Yellow and 2 Western Palm , 20 Myrtle, 12 Common Yellowthroat, 2 Black-throated Blue, 6 Magnolia, 1 Black-throated Green, 2 Pine, 1 American Redstart, and 2 Black-and-white. 3 Golden-crowned and 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglets were busy eating bugs. Sparrows included 35 White-throated, 20 Swamp, and 2 Lincoln's. Thrushes seen included 1 Wood, 2 Hermit, and a Swainson's. A Blue-headed Vireo and a late Blue-gray Gnatcatcher added to the diversity. The wind was mostly from the east so the hawk flight was poor, with only 1 Red-shouldered, 2 Sharp-shinned, 1 Cooper's, and 5 Red-tailed. A Great Cormorant was perched on Sharp's I. Light. Terrapin Point Park in Queen Anne's was slow, but probably because I did not get there until after 4:30. One Cape May, 1 Northern Parula, 1 Magnolia, 1 Yellow Plam and 20 or so Myrtles. A Gray-cheekd Thrush was eating berries with robins and catbirds. Good Birding! Jim Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================