Date:         Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:58:04 -0500
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From:         Robert Ringler <ringler@QIS.NET>
Subject:      Carroll Co. Birds  3/23/03
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    Birds seen in Carroll County today:

At Piney Run Park:

Common Loon  2  both in breeding plumage
Pied-billed Grebe  5
Horned Grebe  3
Red-necked Grebe  3 at least
Double-crested Cormorant  10  - 6 on the lake and 4 circling high =
overhead
Great Blue Heron - 7 flew in
Great Egret  1 - my earliest ever here
Canada Goose  100
Gadwall  3
Baldpate  1
Black Duck  7
Mallard  5
Canvasback  118 - a record count here
Ring-necked Duck  30
Lesser Scaup  15
Bufflehead  10
Goldeneye  1
Hooded Merganser  30
Common Merganser  40
Red-breasted Merganser  15
Ruddy Duck  20
Osprey  1 - my earliest ever here
Coot  9
Bonaparte's Gull  65
Ring-billed Gull  30
Herring Gull  1
Tree Swallow  2
Rough-winged Swallow  2 - my earliest ever here


At Westminster Reservoir:

Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  3
Red-necked Grebe  1
Greylag Goose  1
Canada Goose  75
Mallard  10
Lesser Scaup  3
Bufflehead  4
Bonaparte's Gull  3

Altogether a very exciting morning.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg, Md
ringler@qis.net

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