Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:09:05 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Centennial Park) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Changing weather and changing birds today. There were 3 remaining SHOVELERS this morning that departed at 7:05 (observed by Emy H.). The 4 COMMON LOONS and 6 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS remained, joined by a single female BUFFLEHEAD. Two CASPIAN TERNS and 3 BONAPARTE'S GULLS flew over. My morning walk also produced a SWAMP SPARROW by the wood duck pond and a single HERMIT THRUSH. An evening walk found the waterfowl relatively unchanged (ms. bufflehead had departed though). Birds were absent and I made it around in near record time and decided to walk around again. To my delight a FORESTER'S TERN flew in and we intersected at the dam platform. The bird rested for a while was joined by a soggy TREE SWALLOW. Then the bird started to feed and worked back and forth along the dam for at least 30 minutes. It then settled onto a protruding stick along the shoreline. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================