Date:         Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:40:00 -0500
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From:         Sherry Peruzzi <bookworms@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Ho Co (Lake Elkhorn)
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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

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