Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:07:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Herring Run Park Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cathy Carroll and I did a little preseason birding this morning in the Baltimore East CE Atlas block, which follows Herring Run. We saw 19 species, and particularly enjoyed good looks at two lovely American Tree Sparrows, a pair of soaring Red-shouldered Hawks, and at the plumage on the sun lit Blue Jays. The Swamp Sparrows would have been great also, but they were being very secretive. Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Ring-billed Gull 15 Rock Dove 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 20 Fish Crow 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 Carolina Wren 3 American Robin 15 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 10 American Tree Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 10 Northern Cardinal 15 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 5 Total Species 19 Total Individuals 123 Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================