Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:48:54 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: Talbot Co Birdwalk (10/20) -Blackwater MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Talbot County Chapter joined forces with a Blackwater NWR Scheduled Birdwalk for an outing on the Blackwater Refuge grounds today. Co-leaders were Dick Kleen and Roger Stone. A total of 75 species were seen or heard. Observations (highlights in caps): Pied-billed Grebe DC Cormorant Gt Blue Heron Gt Egret Snowy Egret Mute Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Black Duck Mallard Pintail Gadwall Amer Wigeon LESSER SCAUP Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle (20+) Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK Kestrel Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper DUNLIN Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Gt Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Rock Dove Morning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Phoebe Horned Lark Blue Jay Amer Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren WINTER WREN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET Ruby-crowned Kinglet Bluebird Robin Catbird Mockingbird AMERICAN PIPIT Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler PINE WARBLER PALM WARBLER Cardinal Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Amer Goldfinch House Sparrow Les Roslund lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton, MD 21601 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================