Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:03:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Kent County Bird Club participates in Eastern Neck NWR "Waterfowl Walk" Comments: To: Lex Fry , Leslie Fisher , Ann Hoon , Candi Lee , Cathy Carroll , Clara Ann Simmons , Danny Poet , darryl calloway , David Smith , Gail Regester , glen dulmage , Helga Orrick , Howard McIntyre , John Lorenz , juli dulmage , "Kreiss, Elise (NCI)" , Les Roslund , Louise Smith , Martha Webster , Nancy Everds , Olga Owens , Parke H John , Pat Wilson , Paul Tolson , Reece Corey , Richard Vine , Van Vogel , Vern Stotts , Walter Ellison , "Wayne H. Bell" , Yasuo Takahashi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Walter Ellison, Nancy Martin, Ian Ellison, Howard McIntyre, and Peter Mann from the Kent County Chapter participated in the Eastern Neck NWR "Waterfowl Walk" this morning. Approximately 25 people came for this special event. We started at the causeway, and then went to Hail Creek on the southern end of the island, an area normally closed to the public. The wind was fierce at times, and a lot of the birds were hunkered down, but everyone seemed to have a great time anyway. At Hail Creek, we saw 8-10,00 Lesser Scaup, along with a handful of Greater Scaup, numerous Ruddy Ducks, a few Gadwall and a ring-necked duck. The total list (45 species): * Great Cormorant * Ruddy Duck * Tundra Swan * Canada Goose * Gadwall * Mallard * American Black Duck * Northern Pintail * Canvasback * Ring-necked Duck * Greater Scaup * Lesser Scaup * Long-tailed Duck * Bufflehead * Great Blue Heron * Black Vulture * Turkey Vulture * Bald Eagle * Northern Harrier * Sharp-shinned Hawk * Cooper's Hawk * Red-shouldered Hawk * Red-tailed Hawk * Killdeer * Ring-billed Gull * Great Black-backed Gull * Herring Gull * Lesser Black-backed Gull * Bonaparte's Gull * Laughing Gull * Forster's Tern * Downy Woodpecker * Northern Flicker * Blue Jay * American Crow * Cedar Waxwing * American Robin * Yellow-rumped Warbler * Song Sparrow * White-throated Sparrow * Dark-eyed Junco * Eastern Towhee * Northern Cardinal * Red-winged Blackbird * Common Grackle Peter C. Mann Galena, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================