Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:58:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (New arrivals) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT A few new county year birds this morning in my atlas block (puts me at 94 but who's counting?). A flyover BARN SWALLOW, OSPREY, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, RUSTY BLACKBIRD, PINTAILS, GREEN-WING TEAL, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK and WOOD DUCKS. A surge in sparrows with 40+ SAVANNAHS and 55+ SONGS. HORNED LARKS singing and PIPITS flying over the fields. RED-TAILS moving with 16+ headed north. Along the river at Henryton Rd we flushed a BARRED OWL from some pines. A singing FOX SPARROW, WOOD DUCKS, SAPSUCKER and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. No luck on early warblers (maybe tomorrow?) Bonnie Ott Howard County Field Trip Chair Ellicott City, MD bonnie1163@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================