Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:22:28 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Eastman Subject: Havre de Grace Waterfowl Comments: To: Harford Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I counted birds in Havre de Grace this morning for the Mid-Winter Count and thought I should let everyone know about the water fowl extravaganza that is going on there. The best place is at the lighthouse. Here is what I saw there: American Coot - about 400 Mallards - about 500 Black Duck - 25 American Wigeon - 6 Canvasback - almost 100 Redhead - 12 Ring-necked Duck - 35 Lesser Scaup - about 100 Bufflehead - about 100 Ruddy Duck - 100 or more These ducks were right along the shore in an unfrozen area so you can get spectacular views of them. A little farther out were about 250 Common Merganser and 114 Gadwall. A little further out were thousands of Gulls. My estimates were: Ring-billed Gull - 2000 Herring Gull - 750 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (not an estimate) Great Black-backed Gull - I counted 228 Plus several thousand more gull species out on the bay and flying up and down the river. At least 12 immature Bald Eagles out on the ice in the bay. At the foot of Greene Street, there were 50 Hooded Mergansers and 50 Bufflehead. In with the dock Mallards at the promenade there were a pair of Wood Ducks and one Pintail. Since all the small coves and creeks are frozen, I guess the waterfowl is being forced out onto the open river where there is open water. Les =========== Les Eastman mailto:les@birdtreks.com Havre de Grace, MD Visit the Harford Bird Club Web Page at http://www.harfordbirdclub.org ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================