Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:31:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Byrnes Subject: Re: Carroll Co. Winter Count Highlights In-Reply-To: <007601c2c0ef$9c7ab780$4963a3d1@oemcomputer> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi Bob, I would like to look for the Harris's Sparrow, maybe tomorrow or Thursday. I would appreciate directions and if someone sees it today, would appreciate knowing that also. Was it seen at a particular time of the day? Thanks, -Joe joseph.byrnes@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM] On Behalf Of Robert Ringler Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:51 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Carroll Co. Winter Count Highlights The 16th annual Carroll County winter bird count was held last Saturday, January 18, 2003. We have a tentative species count of 76. Our average is 81 but ice on the lakes knocked out a few species that were present a week ago. Highlights were an immature Harris's Sparrow at a feeder near Manchester, 2 Chipping Sparrows, 2 Phoebes, a Catbird, and 3 Short-eared Owls. The Harris's Sparrow is at a house about two tenths of a mile off the road. Access is by a steep icy lane. There is not much room to park to view the feeder. Consequently I am not broadcasting the details widely. If you are interested in looking for this bird I can send you the details of the location privately. Since the homeowners do not watch birds there will be no updates on its presence from them. At least they put out a good feeder! It also hosted a Chipping Sparrow among the many White-throats, Song Sparrows, Cardinals, House Finches, Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, and White-breasted Nuthatches. Previous Carroll County Harris's Sparrows were at feeders during the winters of 1984 and 2000. Both remained into spring. Congratulations to Sharon Schwemmer who found the bird Saturday. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================