Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:47:48 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Lapidum Boat Launch grebes, 3/7/03 In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030305164303.00a04360@pop3.norton.antivirus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Went down to Lapidum Boat Launch Facility to find the Red-necked Grebe. About 8-10 minutes later two appear near the county borderline. 3/7/03 Observer: Kevin Graff Weather: PS, few distant clouds, 35 degree? Webster-Lapidum Rd. 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 6 Eastern Bluebird 7 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Northern Cardinal 2? Horned Lark? flew over corn field on left (there was a small flocks of 7 at far end of corn field, 1/4 mile off Rt 136, the second field on left, huge one, the flock was over hill near the large old barn) 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 "Slate-colored" Junco 106 Common Grackle 3 House Finch Lapidum Boat Launch Facility 3 Horned Grebe (possible more, in distance at bridge 2 Red-necked Grebe (one at borderline) 2 Great Cormorant (1st and possible 2nd year) 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 3 Mallard 4 American Black Duck 3 Bufflehead 16 Common Merganser 3 Turkey Vulture - cecil side 1 Bald Eagle - 2nd year, flew low over cecil, N 8 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 3 American Crow - cecil side, mobbed vultures 3 Fish Crow - heard well calling at ramp Stafford Rd. 19 Canada Goose 2 Gadwall 36 Common Goldeneye 47 Ring-necked Duck 7 Lesser Scaup 16 Common Merganser (different flocks, not same as one from boat ramp) 5 Hooded Merganser 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 American Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee Roughly about 25-26 species total. On my way home from Lapidum, saw one male Northern Harrier over the old corn field on Rt 165 near Clermont Mill Rd, east of Deer Creek. Might be the same from last summer where I saw a pair in the same area. Might be breeding. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================