Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:12:25 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Horsehead trip - 10/26/03 In-Reply-To: <0476C62B.04086C39.00047A61@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "formally Horsehead Wetlands Center", Grasonville, Queen Anne's County, MD - 10/26/03 Observers: Kevin Graff, Scott Crabtree, Elise Kreiss, & Paul Noell Weather: MC to PS, cool, windy, 60 degree? warm later 1 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 43 Mute Swan 1125 Canada Goose 31 Mallard 16 American Black Duck 4 Greater Scaup 52 Lesser Scaup 1008 Ruddy Duck 6 Turkey Vulture 2 Black Vulture - near entrance as I left 1 Bald Eagle - adult 2 Northern Harrier 8 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - Cabin Creek Rd. 1 American Kestrel 8 Ring-billed Gull 11 Herring Gull 11 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Royal Tern - flyby north at observation tower 6 Forster's Tern 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 26 Northern Flicker 1 Downy Woodpecker 12 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 2 Winter Wren 1 SEDGE WREN - good closeup view 11 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Hermit Thrush 1 BICKNELL'S THRUSH 2 unidentified thrush sp. 37 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 American Pipit - Cabin Creek Rd. 61 European Starling 15 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Northern Cardinal 1 Savannah Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 11 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 71 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Eastern Meadowlark? - Cabin Creek Rd 16 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 57 species Mammals 2 Gary Squirrel Amphibians 1 Southern Leopard Frog Butterflies 1 Checkered White - male near observation tower 4 Cabbage White 3 Orange Sulfer 1 Sleepy Orange 6 Cloudless Sulfer 1 Red Admiral 1 Common Buckeye 2 Monarch Dragonflies 2 Common Green Darner 7 Little Blue Dragonlet 1 Black Saddlebag Other birder will review the wren and the thrush for MD Birdlife List. Great day for new county record. The status was uncertain for both birds or at least one record for Queen Anne's County. New for Horsehead list. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD weekday Ocean City, MD weekend __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================