Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 20:44:00 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: jim brighton Subject: weekend birding, April4 - 6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sorry for the late posting but I have just now been able to get back on line after a few agonizing weeks. Friday morning when I arrived at work at Bachelor Point Boatyard in Oxford, Md. I observed my first Talbot Co. Red-necked Grebe floating underneath one of the docks. This has been my only RN Grebe for Talbot, I was afraid I was going to miss it. Saturday I drove up to Piney Run Res. in Carroll Co. and saw another Red-neck Grebe along with Barn, Tree, N. Rough-winged Swallows and Purple Martins. There were also 35 Bonapartes Gulls flying about. Coming home I stopped at Kent Narrows where there were two RN Grebes, two Snowy Egrets and the largest Ruddy Duck flock I've ever seen. I didn't even attempt to make a count of how many there were. Sunday I drove Rt. 309 through Queen Anne's Co. Between the various ponds there was Bonapartes Gulls, a flock of 35 Ring-necked Ducks, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Shovelers, Mallards, and Black Ducks. I didn't see any shore birds at the turf farm although I had Lssr. Yellowlegs in a field before Kingstown on Rt. 213. On the Chester River there were more Ruddy Ducks and Bonies. At the Chestertown Sewage Lagoons there were many Shovelers, Lssr. Scaup, Gadwall, and a RN Grebe. At the Chesapeake Farms waterfowl pond there were more Shovelers, Gadwall, Pintail, Ring-necked Ducks, Mallards, Lssr. Scaup, Ruddy Ducks, and Am. Wigeon. There was also a flock of approx. 65 Bonies working the pond and fields. In this flock I observed one Little Gull. I first noticed the bird sitting in the water by its smaller size and the nice black marking on the wing. I watched the bird fly and sit for quite a while. Very exciting as it was only my 2nd sighting for Mayland. There were also two adult Wht-crowned Sparrows working the hedges. At Eastern Nk NWR I had two more RN Grebes, Long-tailed Ducks, Hermit Thrushes, Red-tailed Hawk, Harrier, Bald Eagles, Kestrels. In a drying out pond on the right side of the road after you cross the bridge leaving the refuge there were Pectoral Sandpipers, Green-winged Teal, and a lone Blue-winged Teal. Jim Brighton Trappe, Md jdbrighton3@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================