Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:07:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Kent County Trip to ENNWR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Kent County Bird Club went to Eastern Neck NWR and surrounding areas of Kent County yesterday. Seven and 1/2 birders tallied 66 species. The best bird was a Little Gull spotted by the sharp-eyed Ellison Martins after the rest of us had gone home (see Walter's post from yesterday). The gusty winds kept the smaller birds down, but it was a great day to be out. Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Snow Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Common Snipe Laughing Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Peter C. Mann, DVM EPL NorthEast 410-648-5800 (phone) 410-648-6000 (fax) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================