Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:52:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Patterson Park, Calvert Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I did a little walk today with a coworker. We went down to the Patuxent = but the wind and whitecaps made waterfowl viewing impossible. A brief = glimpse of a sparrow that flew low and not well made me think Ammospiza = but it wouldn't come back out making me think so even more. We headed down = to the land bridge spotting a large Black Widow spider on the way. Not = much there but we did manage to dig out an immature White-crowned Sparrow = which was quite cooperative and flew up into a willow and perched in full = view for several minutes. Ruddy Ducks are starting to amass on the Patuxent. There was a raft of = about 5 or 600 on Monday. When they are here in force, there will be = several thousand. There were also several groups of Buffleheads totalling = about 40 birds in a sweep of the river. No Long-tailed Ducks, Goldeneyes = or Scaup yet. Soon! Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, Maryland Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================