Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:58:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Subject: Horsehead Wetland Center, April 12 Comments: To: Meg Parry , Ann Hoon , Barry Kinch , Bill Mechling , Candi Lee , Carlyn Nelson , Cathy Carroll , Cheryl wolfson , Clara Ann Simmons , Danny Poet , darryl calloway , Dave Sorflaten , David Smith , Floyd Parks , Gail Regester , glen dulmage , Helga Orrick , Howard McIntyre , John Lorenz , juli dulmage , Ken Sol? , "Kreiss, Elise (NCI)" , Kristin Brugger , Les Roslund , Leslie Fisher , Lex Fry , Lois Ward , Louise Smith , Martha Webster , Meg Walkup , Nancy Everds , Olga Owens , Parke H John , Pat Wilson , Paul Tolson , Reece Corey , Richard Vine , Stan Arnold , Terry Willis , Van Vogel , Vern Stotts , Walter Ellison , "Wayne H. Bell" , Will and Kim Gale , Yasuo Takahashi , Eileen McLellan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Kent Chapter went to Horsehead Wetlands Center this morning. The high points of the 66 species seen were 2 GANNETS who put on a spectacular show, both species of LOONS, and an AMERICAN BITTERN we flushed from the reeds behind the mews. The list: Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Northern Gannet Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Crow Fish Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch Peter C. Mann, Galena, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================