Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:54:52 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Point Lookout 12/7/02 In-Reply-To: <002201c29e4b$f2e00a60$da8e13cf@bcpl.net.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Yesterday, Steve Sanford, Pete Webb, Elliot & Nancy Kirschbaum, Paul Noell, Marty Cribb, & I went to Point Lookout in search for Harlequin Duck. Here what we saw or heard. I left early before 2pm 7 Common Loon 6 Horned Grebe 121 Northern Gannet 41 Brown Pelican 5 Great Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 25 Tundra Swan (20 headed south & 5 headed north) 88 Canada Goose (Long Neck Rd) 1 Mallard 4 Ruddy Duck 160 Greater Scaup 3 Lesser Scaup 1 Harlequin Duck (male) 53 Surf Scoter 3 White-winged Scoter 304 Black Scoter 43 Long-tailed Duck 358 Bufflehead 41 Common Goldeneye 3 Red-breasted Merganser 5 Black Vulture (roadside birding north of point) 10 Turkey Vulture (same as above) 4 Bald Eagle (3 ad and 1 imm.) 2 Northern Harrier (one each Cornfield & Long Neck) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk (roadside birding north of it) 1 Cooper's Hawk (out of St. Mary's Co.) ?? 1 Red-shouldered Hawk (Potomac River Dr.) 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Cornfield Harbor Dr.) 2 American Kestrel (Cornfield & Long Neck Rd) 3 Killdeer (point, Potomac R Dr, & Cornfield ) ? Bonaparte's Gull (unknown numbers) 17 Ring-billed Gull 8 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 8 Forster's Tern 11 Mourning Dove (1 Potomac R Dr & 10 Long Neck Rd) 1 Belted Kingfisher (Cornfield Harbor Dr.) 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker (picnic area & Cornfield Harbor) 26 Horned Lark (20 point & 6 Cornfield Harbor Rd) 3 Blue Jay (1 at Potomac River Dr) 20 American Crow (13 at Cornfield Harbor Dr) 2 Fish Crow? (marshy creek off Cornfield Harbor) 2 Carolina Chickadee (Potomac River Dr) 2 Tufted Titmouse (same as above??) 7 Brown-headed Nuthatch (5 at point & 2 Potomac R) 2 Carolina Wren (1 at Potomac River Dr) 28 Eastern Bluebird (4 at Cornfield Harbor Dr area) 4 Americam Robin (roadside) 3 Northern Mockingbird 27 American Pipit (7 at point & 20 at Long Neck Rd) 23 Cedar Waxwing 41 European Starling 28 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Northern Cardinal (2 at Potomac River Dr) 2 Eastern Towhee (along Cornfield Harbor Rd) 1 Savannah Sparrow (flew along side of my truck) 8 Song Sparrow (2 at Potomac River Dr) 9 "Slate-colored" Junco 23 Whte-throated Sparrow (23 Cornfield Harbor Rd) 5 White-crowned Sparrow (with white-throat and towhee along Cornfield Harbor Rd) 3 Fox Sparrow (2 Potomac R Dr & 1 Long Neck Rd) 2 Swamp Sparrow (Potomac R Dr) 8 Eastern Meadowlark (Long Neck Rd) 152 Red-winged Blackbird (151 with grackles) Common Grackle (4500 Potomac R Dr flyby) 1 House Finch 67 species (66 in St Mary's Co.) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================