Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:58:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: ENNWR Trip Report - Late Post MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Saturday last, Cecil and Kent County held a joint filed trip to Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge and Chesapeake Farms. Parke John, Rick and Candi Lee from Cecil, Walter Ellison and Peter Mann from Kent and Stan Arnold from Baltimore braved a cool, blustery day to find the following: N.B. - I posted this on Saturday night, but the electronic demons apparently stole it, and it never appeared on Osprey. Sorry. Peter Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge 51 species - great looks at Horned Grebe and Eastern Meadowlarks Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 5 Great Blue Heron 6 Black Vulture 7 Turkey Vulture 20 Canada Goose 2,000 Tundra Swan 30 Gadwall 4 American Black Duck 50 Mallard 15 Canvasback 1,200 Greater Scaup 1,100 Lesser Scaup 1,500 Oldsquaw 12 Bufflehead 200 Common Goldeneye 150 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 350 Bald Eagle 7 Northern Harrier 5 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Ring-billed Gull 60 Herring Gull 25 Great Black-backed Gull 35 Mourning Dove 15 Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 10 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 8 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 12 Tufted Titmouse 6 Carolina Wren 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 30 American Robin 15 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 200 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 20 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 40 Northern Cardinal 30 Red-winged Blackbird 15 Eastern Meadowlark 11 House Finch 30 American Goldfinch 20 Chesapeake Farms 8 Species - One of the White Crowned Sparrows had a white spraloral area and an orange bill - it looks more like a Gambell's every time we see it! Also a nice flock of Pipits (sorry Stan they flew in after you left!) Canada Goose 100 Mallard 5 Northern Shoveler 90 Northern Pintail 3 Ring-necked Duck 63 Ring-billed Gull 100 American Pipit 50 White-crowned Sparrow 4 Peter C. Mann Galena, MD Peter C. Mann, DVM EPL NorthEast 410-648-5800 (phone) 410-648-6000 (fax) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================