Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:15:39 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Kent-Cecil Trip to Turkey Point MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Six members of the Cecil Club and five from the Kent Club joined forces today for a walk and hawk watch at Turkey Point, led by Sean McCandless. Total Species: 51 Best Birds (OK, all birds are good, but these got the biggest adrenalin rush): Orange-crowned warbler, Red-throated loon, Blue-headed vireo Hawks: Slow day at the hawk watch, but we got great views of 2 peregrines and no less than 5 merlins. The list: Red-throated Loon Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Canada Goose Scaup spp. Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Ring-billed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Laughing Gull Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Blue-headed Vireo Cedar Waxwing Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Carolina Wren Winter Wren House Wren Tree Swallow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse American Goldfinch Purple Finch Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Eastern Towhee Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Peter C. Mann Galena, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================