Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:29:48 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Kent County MidWinter Count Comments: To: Bill Mechling , Floyd Parks , Ann Hoon , Candi Lee , Cathy Carroll , Clara Ann Simmons , Danny Poet , darryl calloway , Dave Sorflaten , David Smith , Gail Regester , glen dulmage , Helga Orrick , Howard McIntyre , John Lorenz , juli dulmage , Ken Sol? , "Kreiss, Elise (NCI)" , Les Roslund , Leslie Fisher , Lex Fry , Louise Smith , Martha Webster , Meg Walkup , Nancy Everds , Olga Owens , Parke H John , Pat Wilson , Paul Tolson , Reece Corey , Richard Vine , Terry Willis , Van Vogel , Vern Stotts , Walter Ellison , "Wayne H. Bell" , Yasuo Takahashi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Kent County Mid-Winter Count was on Saturday, February 8, from 7:30 am until dusk. Areas counted included: Eastern Neck NWR, Rock Hall Harbor, Chesapeake Farms, Chestertown, Kennedyville, and Galena Participants: Walter Ellison, Jim Green, Peter Mann, Nancy Martin, Helen Patton (Designated Heckler and Occasional Helper - Ian Ellison), along with feeder report from Nancy Everds 70 species 23,651 individuals 7 Great Blue Herons 40 Black Vultures 145 Turkey Vultures 180 Snow Geese 8700 Canada Geese 275 Tundra Swans 130 American Black Ducks 265 Mallards 105 Northern Shovelers 8 Northern Pintails 200 Greater Scaup 67 Lesser Scaup 95 scaup (sp) 10 Long-tailed Ducks 83 Bufflehead 32 Common Goldeneye 2 Hooded Mergansers 100 Common Mergansers 1 Red-breasted Merganser 28 Ruddy Ducks 19 Bald Eagles (10 ad, 9 im) 5 Northern Harriers 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 Red-tailed Hawks 1 American Kestrel 6 Killdeer 300 Ring-billed Gulls 190 Herring Gulls 260 Great Black-backed Gulls 70 Rock Doves 31 Mourning Doves 2 Great Horned Owls 1 Belted Kingfisher 9 Red-bellied Woodpeckers 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers 6 Downy Woodpeckers 15 Northern Flickers 1 Pileated Woodpecker 10 Blue Jays 18 American Crows 3 crow (sp) 55 Horned Larks 13 Carolina Chickadees 10 Tufted Titmice 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 28 Carolina Wrens 1 Winter Wren 8 Eastern Bluebirds 4 Hermit Thrushes 60 American Robins 1 Gray Catbird 38 Northern Mockingbirds 3 Brown Thrashers 1710 European Starlings 100 Cedar Waxwings 8 Yellow-rumped Warblers 3 Eastern Towhees 6 Field Sparrows 29 Savannah Sparrows 3 Fox Sparrows 150 Song Sparrows 27 Swamp Sparrows 530 White-throated Sparrows 20 White-crowned Sparrows 280 Dark-eyed Juncos 125 Northern Cardinals 1840 Red-winged Blackbirds 7210 Common Grackles 6 Brown-headed Cowbirds 20 House Finches 5 American Goldfinches 60 House Sparrows Peter C. Mann Galena. MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================