Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:08:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Red-throated Loon at Lake Roland Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The highlight of this morning's Baltimore Bird Club walk at Lake Roland in Baltimore County was a closely observed winter plumaged Red-throated Loon on the lake just above the dam. The more or less complete list of the 33 species seen on the walk are as follows: Red-throated Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Canada Goose 10 Wood Duck 1 American Wigeon 1 Mallard 10 Green-winged Teal 1 Common Merganser 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Northern Mockingbird 3 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 1 American Goldfinch 1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================