Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 02:15:36 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Hans Holbrook Subject: Lower Western Shore Highlights Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Jim Brighton and I birded in PG, Calvert, and St. Mary's today. As will not be a suprise, we had a total of 7 Red-necked Grebes in four locations. Waterfowl were plentiful, and Horned Grebes were everywhere. On Rt. 235 just south of the Patuxent Naval Base entrance there was 1 dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. 3/1/03 Jug Bay, PG County 4 RED-NECKED GREBES (one was on the AA county side) 1 Osprey 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 Wood Duck Solomon's, Calvert County 1 RED-NECKED GREBE 2 Red-throated Loon 1 Osprey 1 Peregrine Falcon flying with a duck Point Lookout, St. Mary's County 2 RED-NECKED GREBE previously reported by Patty Craig and Marty Cribb 1 Snow Goose on Airdale Rd 1 BRANT fly-by at the point 6 Gannet 2 Brown Pelican Black Scoters huge raft Beauvue Rt 244 ponds, St. Mary's Ring-neck Ducks (many) 27 Redhead 86 Gadwall Wigeon Hans Holbrook Columbia, MD _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================