Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:13:03 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Re: Ft. McHenry Big Sit (10/13) In-Reply-To: <0H47002IKISE5U@mtain02.icomcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I just talked to Jim - who made the ID. He was five feet away when the Acadian vocalized. on 10/18/02 10:34 PM, Robert Ringler at ringler@QIS.NET wrote: > Keith, > How was the Acadian Flycatcher identified? This would be the third > latest record for the state. > > Bob Ringler > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Keith Eric Costley > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:13 AM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Ft. McHenry Big Sit (10/13) > > >> The Ft. McHenry Bit Sit was very successful; we counted 772 birds of 66 >> species in seventeen hours. Last year we had 55 species in sixteen hours. >> The park service erected a sixteen foot tower that gave us a great view of >> the Steinwig maintenance yard where we found the Clay-colored, Savannah, >> Chipping, Swamp, Song, Lincoln's, White-throated, and Field Sparrows. > Other >> highlights included finding six American Black Duck in the predawn hours - >> they were gone at daybreak; a singing Marsh Wren; a female Black and White >> Warbler; a Palm Warbler; and a Winter Wren. >> >> THE LIST: >> Pied-billed Grebe - 1 >> Double-crested Cormorant - 170 >> Great Blue Heron - 5 >> Canada Goose - 31 >> Mute Swan - 2 >> American Black Duck - 6 >> Mallard - 18 >> Osprey - 1 >> Red-tailed Hawk - 1 >> American Kestrel - 1 >> Killdeer - 3 >> Spotted Sandpiper - 1 >> Laughing Gull - 121 >> Ring Billed Gull - 2 >> Herring Gull - 3 >> Great Black-backed Gull - 5 >> Caspian Tern - 1 >> Forester's Tern - 8 >> Rock Dove - 6 >> Mourning Dove - 25 >> Chimney Swift - 14 >> Belted Kingfisher - 2 >> Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 >> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 >> Northern Flicker - 4 >> Eastern Wood-peewee - 2 >> Acadian Flycatcher - 1 > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= Keith Eric Costley Randallstown, Baltimore County oriolekec1@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================