Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:00:30 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marian Dodson Subject: Saturday on the Shore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Chesapeake Audubon Society trip to Eastern Shore hot spots on Saturday found the following species: Tanyard Marsh: witnessed clouds of Red-Winged Blackbirds rising from the nighttime roost, taking to the sky. Apart from a lone Great Blue Heron, the only other inhabitants of the marsh were starlings and unidentified gulls flying through the fog. Hurlock Waste Water Treatment Plant: 1,000+ Tundra Swans, Northern Shovelors, Ring Neck Ducks, Lesser Scaup, Mallards, Black Ducks, Canvasback, Herring and Ring Billed Gulls, Fields and roadsides: Mourning Dove, Snow Geese (including several Blue Geese), American Kestral, Eastern Bluebird, Northern Flicker, Horned Lark, Song Sparrow, American Crow, Blue Jay, Cardinal, American Robin, Northern Harrier (several magnificent male Gray Ghosts), Savannah Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, Red Tail Hawk, Swamp Sparrow, Carolina Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, and a Bald Eagle (the first of about 20.) Blackwater NWR added: White-Throated Sparrow, Northern Mockingbird, Hairy Woodpecker, Brown-Headed Nuthatch, Fox Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Hermit Thrush, Common Merganser, Ruddy Duck, Pintails, Dunlin, Eastern Towhee, Pileated Woodpecker, Gadwall, Golden Eagle, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Turkey Vulture, Greater Black-Backed Gull, Rough-legged Hawk, Goldfinch, American Woodcock. The birding wasn't too bad despite the lousy weather. Marian Dodson Glen Burnie, MD MJD405@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================