Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 21:05:27 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Loch Raven Reservoir 12/24/02 In-Reply-To: <000f01c2a66d$902539c0$78795b0c@Norm1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Paul Noell and I went to Skeet & Trap Club this morning. Waterfowl numbers are building up. Cold and windy around 35 degree. 1 Common Loon 5 Horned Grebe 42 Pied-billed Grebe 655 Canada Goose (many headed to nearby fields) 29 Mallard 18 American Black Duck 29 Gadwall 204 American Wigeon 1 Ruddy Duck 117 Redhead 436 Ring-necked Duck 6 Lesser Scaup 8 Bufflehead 9 Common Merganser (3 males, 6 females) 2 Red-breasted Merganser (both females) 96 Hooded Merganser 29 American Coot (finally, it about time) 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 11 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 15 Northern Flicker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 4 Blue Jay 16 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 14 Carolina Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 2 Brown Creeper 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Carolina Wren 22 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 28 Eastern Bluebird 1 Hermit Thrush 60 American Robin 6 Northern Mockingbird 2 Cedar Waxwing 62 European Starling 27 Northern Cardinal 2 Song Sparrow 13 "Slate-colored" Junco 51 White-throated Sparrow 2 American Goldfinch 53 species Also: 2 Gray Squirrel, 11 White-tailed Deer & 1 Red Fox (the fox was seen by Paul only) Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================