Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:34:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt. R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Howard's Big Sit MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I left out Ruby-crowned Kinglet, the last species of the day. Kurt Schwarz Howard County goawaybird@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Schwarz" To: Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:27 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Howard's Big Sit > Howard's Big Sit, alas, was not a very good one. We set a new low > for species, only 39. The previous low was our first year, 1999, > when we saw or heard 46 species, in heavy rain. I arrived at 6:50, > with others joining in about 9:00. For a large part of the morning, > we had a wider variety of doughnuts than bird species. Ten birders > eventually joined in. Everybody went off in other directions by > 15:00. By 16:00, boredom and another shower set in. I took the > hint and went home. The rather grim total, usual suspects only, > was: > > > Double-crested Cormorant - 1, fly-by > Great Blue Heron - 1, which perched in a tree in plain sight for 2 hours > Great Egret - 1 > Turkey Vulture - 1 > Canada Goose - who counted? > Mallard - maybe a dozen > Cooper's Hawk - 1 > Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 > Killdeer - 2, fly-by > Mourning Dove - 3 (!!!) > Chimney Swift - 12 > Belted Kingfisher - 2 > Red-bellied Woodpecker -1 > Downy Woodpecker - 1 > Northern Flicker - 3 > Eastern Phoebe - 1-2 > Blue Jay - a lot! > American Crow - 2 definite, another dozen "species" > Carolina Chickadee - 1-2 > Tufted Titmouse - 1-2 > Carolina Wren - 3-4 > Eastern Bluebird - 1 > American Robin - 6 > Gray Catbird - 1 > N. Mockingbird - lots! All over the place > European Starling - 5 > Cedar Waxwing - 10 > Yellow-rumped Warbler - No count made, but apparently abundant > Common Yellowthroat - 1, male > Eastern Towhee - 2-3 > Field Sparrow - 1-2 > Song Sparrow - no count made > Swamp Sparrow - 1, heard > White-throated Sparrow - at least a dozen > Northern Cardinal - no count made, less than a dozen > Red-winged Blackbird - 20-30 > House Finch - no count made > Am. Goldfinch - no count made > > We gotta think of a name for our circle! > > Kurt Schwarz > Howard County > goawaybird@comcast.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================