Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:40:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sherry Peruzzi Subject: Ho Co (Lake Elkhorn) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I walked around Lake Elkhorn in Columbia this afternoon enjoying the beautiful late fall weather and the abundance of birds. On the lake were a Pied-billed Grebe, four male Buffleheads, ten Ruddy Ducks and two American Coots. There was a beautiful male Wood Duck at the upper end of the lake (between the bridge and the powerlines). Further east things were quiet while a Red-Tailed Hawk sat on a low tree branch facing first one way and then the other, giving me a great view, but the Sparrows -- mostly Songs and White-throats -- were everywhere as soon as the hawk left five minutes later. One of the Trumplings is having an affair, and the two Swans are apparently not speaking to one another -- one Trumpling was sleeping on the nest box platform with a Mute, while the other Trumpling was sulking on Forebay Pond, hanging out with a big white domestic goose. So much for mating for life. Kingfishers and Great Blues were hunting on the south side of the lake and at Forebay Pond. The Starlings and Grackles are back -- oh joy. But everywhere I went I heard White-throated Sparrows singing their delightful song, and there were Ruby-crowned Kinglets hopping around in the trees all over the place. Sherry Peruzzi Howard County bookworms /at/ comcast /dot/ net (address written for spam avoidance) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================