Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:00:17 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Shaffer Subject: Prince George's Birds, Including a Red Headed Woodpecker On Friday, May 9th, I went to a variety of locations along the Patuxent in Prince George's County. Highlights were a Red Headed Woodpecker, Bobolink, an Osprey fighting an Eagle, and several Grasshopper Sparrows. The total list was 86 species: Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Mute Swans (Schoolhouse Pond) Canada Geese Mallards Greater Scaup (Jackson Landing) Double Crested Cormorants Common Loons (flyovers along Patuxent)** Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper Dunlin (Merkle)** Spotted Sandpiper Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Bald Eagle Osprey Red Tailed Hawk American Kestrel** Great Black Backed Gull Herring Gull Laughing Gulls Ring Billed Gulls Caspian Tern Forsters Tern Royal Terns (Eagle Harbor)** Barn Swallows Tree Swallows Bank Swallow (Eagle Harbor) Purple Martin Chimney Swifts Song Sparrow White Throated Sparrows White Crowned Sparrows (2 late adults at feeders at Merkle)** Chipping Sparrows Grasshopper Sparrows** Field Sparrow Swamp Sparrow House Sparrow Eastern Towhee Mrytle Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warblers Yellow Warbler Prairie Warbler Northern Parula American Redstart Yellow Breasted Chat Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Pileated Woodpecker Red Headed Woodpecker** Red Bellied Woodpecker Common Grackle Red Winged Blackbird American Crow Bobolink (female, Acquasco Farms) Eastern Meadowlark (Merkle) Turkey (Eagle Harbor Road) Rock Dove Mourning Dove House Finch Acadian Flycatcher Blue Gray Gnatcatcher Chicadee Titmouse Eastern Kingbird Catbird Thrasher Mocker Red Eyed Vireo White Eyed Vireo Eastern Bluebird American Robin Wood Thrush Carolina Wren Starling Cardinal Goldfinch Indigo Bunting Fred Shaffer Patuxent Bird Club ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================