Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:13:25 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Wilde Lake/ Elkhorn) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The Howard Bird club held a field trip this morning at Wilde Lake in Columbia. A beautiful morning to be out and the highlights were FOX SPARROW- under a feeder BROWN CREEPER YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER BONAPARTE'S GULLS (7 - leftover from the 182 there the day before) DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS (2) (43 Species in all) Made a brief stop at Forbay pond of Elkhorn in search of the Great Egret report from yesterday The RED-NECKED GREBE is still hanging on. No sign of the egret but did find a PALM WARBLER. CHIPPING SPARROW at the feeder this morning. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================