Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:26:22 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Lake Roland Swallows Comments: cc: Gail Frantz , Stephen G Sanford , Ted Noell Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yesterday was the first of the spring Tuesday morning walks at Lake Roland in Baltimore county. We had two Northern Rough-wing Swallows and two Barn Swallows at the dam. These are my earliest sightings for both of these species at Lake Roland. The complete list (actually one missing, Gail, Steve, Ted?) is as follows: Pied-billed Grebe 2 Canada Goose 10 Mallard 5 Common Merganser 7 Great Blue Heron 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 American Coot 1 Killdeer 2 Herring Gull 1 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 3 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 5 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 4 House Sparrow 1 American Goldfinch 3 House Finch 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 5 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 1 Total 40 Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================