Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:31:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Small Goose at Loch Raven Reservoir Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mary Chetelat, Ruth Culbertson, Gail Frantz, Zlata Hartman, Paul Noel, and I birded the skeet and trap range area of Loch Raven Reservoir this morning. We had a total of 41 species before ending the trip in the rain. The most interesting sighting was a fly-by of about 20 Canada Geese. The bird following the leader was only one-half the size of the others, which would indicate that it was a Cackling or Richardson's Goose. I also appeared somewhat lighter in color than the others but, as all the birds were in silhouette, I don not know whether the lighter appearance is significant. We also had a small kettle of migrating Red-tailed Hawks. A winter wren also put in an appearance to the delight of several persons in the group. The full trip list is as follows: Pied-billed Grebe 7 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 5 Canada Goose 200 American Wigeon 100 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 50 Ring-necked Duck 55 Bufflehead 18 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 10 Killdeer 1 Ring-billed Gull 5 Herring Gull 3 Rock Dove 20 Great Horned Owl 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 5 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 20 Carolina Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 3 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 5 American Robin 50 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 15 Cedar Waxwing 30 Yellow-rumped Warbler 40 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 50 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 20 House Finch 1 Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================