Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:08:51 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Fort McHenry Grebes Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Three species of grebe were seen on this morning's walk at Fort McHenry in Baltimore City, including seven Red-necked Grebe. The walk was led by Jim Peters, who keeps a more accurate count of birds seen at this location. The complete list of species seen by me, including rough counts by me, are as follows: Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 4 Red-necked Grebe 7 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Canada Goose 30 American Wigeon 50 American Black Duck 3 Mallard 50 Canvasback 1 Lesser Scaup 75 Bufflehead 30 American Kestrel 1 Killdeer 4 Ring-billed Gull (number not estimated) Herring Gull (number not estimated) Rock Dove (number not estimated) Mourning Dove 6 Fish Crow 6 European Starling (number not estimated) American Tree Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Red-winged Blackbird 50 House Finch 2 House Sparrow 15 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================