Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:48:13 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings - March 14 Comments: cc: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I had a few interesting sightings today in the District of Columbia: In Kenilworth Park, NE DC -- 2 AMERICAN KESTREL 8 HOODED MERGANSER 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRD 4 EASTERN MEADOWLARK In the Anacostia "wetlands" (between Anacostia Park and the Anacostia Metro station) -- 20 WILSON'S SNIPE (may have been more; I didn't want to flush them all) At the downstream end of the South Capitol St. Bridge -- 1 female OSPREY sitting near a nest In DC waters off the Washington Sailing Marina, south of National Airport, there were -- 10 BUFFLEHEAD 30 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER 2 PIED-BILLED GREBE 2 HORNED GREBE 6 RED-NECKED GREBE 4 AM. BLACK DUCK 2 different pairs of OSPREY Mike Bowen Bethesda, MD D.H. Michael Bowen (Mike) 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 Tel./Fax: (301) 530-5764 e-mail: dhmbowen@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================