Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:35:06 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Assateague Island ORV Zone MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A ride south along Assateague Island's ORV Zone this past Saturday morning netted the following species: Brown Pelican 75 Glossy Ibis 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 Black-bellied Plover 6 American Oystercatcher 6 Willet 15 Whimbrel 18 Ruddy Turnstone 8 Sanderling 1000 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Laughing Gull 300 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull 250 Great Black-backed Gull 50 Royal Tern 80 Sandwich Tern 6 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 250 Least Tern 12 Black Tern 2 Fish Crow 12 Barn Swallow 25 Mammals: about a dozen or so ponies taking the sea air. Best, Norm & Fran ================================ Norm Saunders Colesville & West Ocean City, MD marshhawk@att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================