Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:08:51 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Sparrows) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Spent 5+ hours beating the bushes for sparrows this morning. Numbers were great (I think we are peaking now) but diversity was not as I had hoped. The Savannah, Song and Swamp numbers were in the hundreds (I would estimate 900 birds in the various spots we visited). There were 4 Lincoln's, 20 White-Crowns, 40-50 White-Throats, 40 Chipping, 20 Field. Other notable birds were Horned Lark, American Bittern, Marsh Wren and Dickcissel. Bonnie Ott Howard County Field Trip Chair For anyone interested in joining me for pre-hawk sparrowing at Mt. Pleasant Ellicott City, MD tomorrow I will start birding at 7 a.m. leaving from the shed. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================