Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:09:41 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Don Burggraf Subject: Re: Chesapeake Audubon Upcoming Trips Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi, all I went to the Eastern Shore Saturday, with Sedge Wren as a target bird. I whiffed on the Wren (despite trying very hard!). Nevertheless, I had fun and saw some interesting things. Irish Grove Great Blue Heron 4 Canada Goose 3 American Black Duck 6 Turkey Vulture 9 Black Vulture 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Northern Harrier 4 Virginia Rail 3 Wilson's Snipe 4 (I assume they weren't Common's) Mourning Dove 7 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 American Crow 8 Fish Crow 3 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 1 Brown-headed Nuthatch 8 Carolina Wren 5 Eastern Bluebird 9 Northern Mockingbird 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 45 Northern Cardinal 4 Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 3 Eastern Towhee 2 Common Grackle 23 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Mammals- Red Fox, Rabbit, Otter (!) Rumbley Point Road Horned Grebe 2 Bufflehead-2 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 10 Scaup (sp) 1 Nothern Harrier 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Yellowlegs (sp) 4 Herring Gull 1 Dark-eyed Junco 12 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Deal Island Great Blue Heron 14 Great Egret 14 Tundra Swan 24 Canada Goose 20 American Wigeon 36* American Black Duck 12 Green-winged Teal 4 Northern Pintail 9 Bald Eagle 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Cambridge pier Loon(sp) 1 Horned Grebe 4 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Canada Goose 92 Mallard 5 Lesser Scaup 458 (I can't guarantee there wasn't a Greater stuck in there somewhere) Common Goldeneye 18 Canvasback 52 Redhead 1 Long-tailed Duck 29 (!) - in both basic and alternate plumages Surf Scoter 3 Ruddy Duck 6 Carolina Chickadee 1 Common Grackle 1 Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Robins *Of special interest One duck swimming with American Wigeons showed the typical face (light forehead and crown), back, flanks, and tail pattern of a wigeon, but showed all-white tertials. It was hard to judge, but the bird seemed slightly larger than the widgeons close by. It also showed a peculiar behavior. While the other wideons were either feeding by dipping their heads in the water or tipping, this bird consistently flipped his wings to go completely under the water (popping back up in less than a second). When the bird flapped his wings, he showed two white patches- the secondaries and the tertials, separated by a narrow dark band. Perhaps that is why he raised up and flapped his wings frequently - he thought he had something special to advertise! If anyone has any suggestions for finding Sedge Wrens, I'm still open. Don Burggraf Baltimore dburggraf@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================