Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:21:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Parke H John Subject: Cecil Bird Club's Mt Harmon and Grove Neck Sanctuary Trip MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yesterday, the Cecil Bird Club along with birders from Harford and Kent counties birded Mount Harmon Plantation and Grove neck Sanctuary in southern Cecil County. The morning was spent at Mount Harmon and in addition to the usuals produced: Pied-billed Grebe 1 Wood Ducks 6 Common Merg 4 Bald Eagles 4 Osprey 4 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Kestrel 1 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Foster's Tern 1 Great-horned Owl 2 (one on the nest) Eastern Phoebe 1 Tree Swallow 8 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Yellow-rumped warbler 1 Pine Warbler 1 Palm warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Eastern Meadowlark 2 The afternoon was spent at Grove neck Sanctuary. With the warmer temperatures the passerines were out in force and in addition to the usuals produced: Common Loon 2 Red-throated Loon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Red-necked Grebe 3 Ring-necked Ducks 14 Lesser Scaup 2 Bufflehead 10 Red-breasted merg 10 Bald Eagles 2 Osprey 2 Bonaparte's Gull 11 Foster's Tern 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Tree Swallow 22+ Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2+ Barn Swollow 4 Winter Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Yellow-rumped warbler 30+ Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 3+ Palm warbler 9 Chipping Sparrow 8 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Parke. pjohn@wlgore.com parke@del.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================