Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:08:17 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: What?? A Brown Pelican over Pickering Creek?? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Around noon today (17 Jan 03) I stopped in at the Pickering Creek Audubon Center and joined with Mark Scallion for a brief walk around their grounds. To our mutual astonishment, a look into the sky at one point revealed a soaring immature Brown Pelican. The bird was slightly east of the Pickering Creek grounds, perhaps still over Pickering Creek itself, but above the community called Forest Landing. Other birds seemed similarly surprised, for a Bald Eagle came over to check it out, as did a Turkey Vulture. So - keep an eye on the sky, even during these windy and cold days. Other birds found included: Hermit Thrush, Towhee, many White-throats and Cardinals and Juncos, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy, Red-bellied Wpkr, Flicker, White-breasted Nuthatch, great close view of a Red-tailed Hawk, many Blue Jays, and a few Bluebirds. For water birds - many Ruddies, ~ 20 Bufflehead, a pair of Mute Swan, five Tundra Swan (fly-over), and hordes of Canada Geese. The new ponds are all frozen over - one held three high-school students playing hockey - since the roads out here were far too bad for them to get to school. Les Roslund lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton, MD 21601 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================