Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:25:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Eastern Shore 3/15/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I spent most of the day birding in Wicomico and Somerset counties = today, finishing with a brief stop at Pickering Creek Audubon Center in = Talbot County. Noteworthy: Red-throated Loon - 3 on the Nanticoke River, 2 seen from Bivalve and 1 = seen from Tyaskin. Grebes - 0 of any kind. Double-crested Cormorant - about 140 sitting on the Great Shoals = Lighthouse, Wicomico Co. and numerous others along the Nanticoke = River. Great Egret - 3 at Deal Island WMA. There might have been more but the = Reilly Roberts Road access was locked. Canvasback, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, and Goldeneye still common along = the Nanticoke. Pectoral Sandpiper - 3 at Pickering Creek. Tree Swallow - 1 at Nanticoke and 1 or 2 at Pickering Creek. Boat-tailed Grackle - on territory at Nanticoke. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================