Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:46:27 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: 10/22/02 Perry Point,-Cecil Greetings: i spent a couple hours at work this afternoon birding the Perry Point VA hospital grounds and had a pretty descent afternoon. Today was definatly a sparrow day! With 7 species (counting junco and towhee)... Also, I had a very large flock of Forster's tern feeding over the mouth of the Susquehanna and on the flats. Waterfowl seems to be returning to Mill Creek along Perryville Town Park too. With 45 total species today, here is a list of notables: Great Blue Heron (5) Lesser Scaup (21) Ruddy Duck (73) Mallard (28) American Black Duck (13) Gadwall (2) Canada Goose (30) Double-crested Cormorant (6) Laughing Gull (5) Ring-billed Gull (300+) Forster's Tern (200+) Black Vulture (1) Bald Eagle (1) Merlin (1) Eastern Phoebe (2) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3) Yellow-rumped (Mytle) Warbler (50+) Eastern (Yellow) Palm Warbler (6) Western (Brown) Palm Warbler (8) White-Throated Sparrow (2) Swamp Sparrow (6) Song Sparrow (7) Field Sparrow (2) Chipping Sparrow (1) Dark-eyed Junco (1) Eastern Towhee (2) Side note: I saw a many deer but only one buck- (13 Points!)! ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================