Date:         Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:28:08 -0500
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From:         Harry Fink <HFink@MIDLANTICDATA.COM>
Organization: Midlantic Data Professionals
Subject:      Sunday birding.
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Sunday 7:30-9 Central Maryland Farm  by the ponds

Wood Duck (6) startled them (and me) out of lower pond

Red-tailed Hawk

Turkey Vulture

Common Snipe (2) upper pond

Greater Yellowlegs (2) upper pond

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

American Pipit

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Carolina Wren

Northern Mockingbird

American Robin

Blue Jay

American Crow

European Starling

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Field Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Rusty Blackbird

Brown-headed Cowbird

American Goldfinch



Fly-overs

Canada Goose

Ring-billed Gull



I had a sparrow at the upper pond that I REALLY could have used Bonnie's
help on.   It was much lighter then a Song Sparrow and the fine
streaking, the chest was not buffy.  But also not as light as I am used
to seeing Savannah Sparrows.  I would think it was a Savannah but not
sure if they are still in the area, so it goes in my log as an
unidentified sparrow sp.



Had a huge group of blackbirds on the cornfield now cut next to the
upper pond.  Many large flyovers of blackbirds as well.



At home had a visit at the bird feeders by an immature and inexperienced
Red-tailed Hawk.  He wasn't going for any of the birds, but kept a
squirrel up inside my squirrel baffle (tube type that goes over a 4x4)
for almost 20 minutes.  It was hysterical to watch the squirrel keep
popping his head out the bottom to check and see if the hawk was still
there.


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