Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:23:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Town Hill Eagles and other stuff (Tree Swallow, Pintail) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT JB Congratulations. I wished I could get out to help you but I have not birded in Charles, yet alone, Allegheny. Too much work. Spread the word. You should be able to make 200 before December 31. Regards George ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Churchill" To: Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Town Hill Eagles and other stuff (Tree Swallow, Pintail) > Hi MD Ospreyers, > > I was at Town Hill (Allegany County, MD) on Sunday (11/24) from > 9:40 am until 1:00 pm. Ray Kiddy joined me soon after I got there. We > only had a few red tailed hawks (I think the final total came to 6) but > we had two imm. Golden Eagles (one at ~11:30 and another at ~12:30). We > also had an adult Bald Eagle some time in the interim. > > I was there Saturday from 9:00 am until 10:45 am with about the > same number of Red-tails and one each Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks. > I also had a flyover Common Loon. Ray told me that he was there after I > had left (11:30 - 1:00) pm and had two Golden Eagles on Saturday as > well. > > Ray also tipped me off to a Northern Pintail at Pinto Pond (near > Pinto Marsh just east of Rt 220) that I went to look for. I found the > pintail and also a relatively late (for out here anyway) Tree Swallow > and an immature Northern Harrier. > > There was also a bird at my girlfriend Donna's bird feeder in > Frostburg that gave me quite a start. A partial albino Junco that > (without binoculars) looked somewhat like a snow bunting. > > an aside ... I am at 197 for the county for 2002. The easiest > species left to hope for is perhaps Fox Sparrow or Tundra Swan. I also > need a Redhead, Greater Scaup, any Scoter, any loon other than Common, > any grebe other than Pied-billed or Horned, Common Goldeneye, > Rough-legged Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Snow Bunting, Lapland Longspur and > any of the harder to get winter finches (i.e. I have Purple Finch and > Pine Siskin, but I need Evening Grosbeak or Common Redpoll). I need Red > but not WW Crossbills too (since there was one in Frostburg in May). I > am hoping to get 200 species for the year (which I have never done yet) > and am dangerously close. > > good birding ... > > J.B. > > > ====================================================== > > John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 > GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 > West Virginia University ext. 4458 > Natural Resource Analysis Center Fax (304) 293-3752 > P.O. Box 6108 > Morgantown, WV 26506-6108 > > > webpage: http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================