Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:43:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Pete Webb Subject: Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count, Sat., Dec. 28, 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count, Sat., Dec. 28, 2002 Sorry I've taken so long getting this out; I had to wait for some of the reports to come in before I could compiles this PRELIMINARY report, subject to possible revision. 97 species, 27,743 birds counted including 2 or 3 Great Cormorants, new high (but wait'll you see the Annapolis Count total!), a late lingering Nashville Warbler at Cherry Hill, a Goshawk at the Back River Treatment Plant, 9 Snow Buntings at Hart-Miller Island, 3 Rusty Blackbirds at the Plant, no owls found anywhere. Some of the totals may change subject to approval or deletion of certain uncommon bird reports awaiting the Compiler's review after details are submitted and considered. None of these are reviewable for the MD/DC records committee. Total species count (preliminary): 97 species, 27,743 birds counted by 20 observers (13 paid and 4 more promised to pay) in 9 parties counting from 6:50 am to 5 pm, temp's 26 to 38 degrees Fahrenheit, winds westerly 5 - 20 MPH, still water frozen, moving and salt water mostly open, partial remnant snow cover less than an inch, mostly sunny skies am, mostly cloudy pm. The individual species counts (preliminary): 1 R-T Loon 4 P-B Grebe 3 Horned Grebe 139 D-C Corm. 2 G Corm 45 G B Heron 13 B-C Night-heron 1 Black Vulture 15 Turkey Vult. 540 Can. Goose 31 Mute Swan 3 Wood Duck 32 Gadwall 13 Am. Wigeon ("Baldpate") 52 Black Duck 485 Mallard 2 Blue-winged Teal 2 N Pintail 10 Green-winged Teal 732 Canvasback 19 Ring-necked 210 G Scaup 10476 L Scaup 3450 Scaup sp 312 Bufflehead 23 Com. Goldeneye 50 Hooded Merg 5 Common Merg 1387 Ruddy Duck 5 Bald Eagle (total) 5 N. Harrier 5 Sharp-shinned Hawk 9 Cooper's 1 Goshawk 2 Red-should. 14 Red-tail 5 Kestrel 1 Peregrine 2 Pheasant 1 Virginia Rail 58 Coot 16 Killdeer 167 Bonaparte's Gull 5130 Ring-billed Gull 240 Herring Gull 76 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Forster's Tern 528 Pigeon ("Rock Dove") 172 Mourning Dove 11 Belted Kingfisher 17 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 27 Downy 2 Hairy 17 Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 24 Blue Jay 90 Am. Crow 13 Fish Crow 111 Crow Sp. 30 Horned Lark 47 Car. Chickadee 30 Titmouse 2 White-br Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 51 Car. Wren 4 Winter Wren 18 G C Kinglet 9 R C Kinglet 15 Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 411 Robin 53 Mockingbird 500 Starling 3 American Pipit 6 Cedar Waxwing 1 Nashville Warbler 16 Myrtle Warb ("Yellow-rumped Warbler") 1 Pine Warbler 2 Com. Yellowthroat 5 Towhee 22 Tree Sparrow 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 9 Savannah Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 147 Song Sp. 36 Swamp Sp. 254 White-throat 123 Junco 9 Snow Bunting 103 Cardinal 487 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Rusty Blackbird 26 C. Grackle 5 Cowbird 115 House Finch 58 Goldfinch 326 House Sparrow ..... and NO partridge (of any species) in a pear or any other tree; closest was the Ring-necked Pheasant at Cherry Hill, perhaps the last reliable location for them in Maryland? I suppose in-breeding will eventually do them in there, and they'll be back to the population of captive-raised birds, but the people doing that are perhaps also dwindling in numbers. Pete Webb (Compiler) Baltimore, MD, USA pwebb@bcpl.net (home, after 7) pew@niroinc.com (work, M-F 830-5) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================