Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:09:50 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: New Year birding Comments: cc: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Jane woke up to a singing Carolina Wren at 0620. My first bird of the year = was a Carolina Chickadee. The heavy rain kept the birds to a minimum. We headed over to the Sea Breeze to scope out the water but the heavy fog = made it difficult to see even the piers. But, at 0810 we clearly had the = Kelp Gull among Ring-billed, Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls. There = were a few Long-tailed Ducks and Buffleheads and a single Common Goldeneye.= Next stop was Beauvue Ponds, near Leonardtown, where Patty Craig had found = 2 female Common Mergansers yesterday. It was raining pretty hard when we = arrived and we were unable to relocate them. There were a good number of = different ducks there, tho.=20 Canada Geese Tundra Swan Gadwall American Wigeon Black Duck Mallard Ring-necked Duck Hooded Mergansers and down on the creek were quite a few Ruddy Ducks.=20 Other assorted birds included=20 Red-tailed Hawk Am. Kestrel Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay Am. Crow E. Bluebirds N. Mockingbird Titmice E. Starling Cedar Waxwing White-throated Sparrow Juncos=20 E. Meadowlark Probably forgot something but we figured that was actually not to bad = considering the weather. Hope everyone else had a nice outing, too! Happy New Year! Tyler Bell & Jane Kostenko bell@acnatsci.org California, MD =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 =========================================================================