Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:33:22 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Black Hill Regional Park, Saturday Nov. 15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I went back to Black Hill this morning, found it fairly quiet compared with last weekend. Waterfowl included: female Hooded Mergansers, a single female Common Merganser, 1 Tundra Swan, flying around and looking lonely, + Ring-necked Ducks, + Buffleheads, Ruddy Ducks, American Wigeon, Mallards and A. Black Ducks, C. Goose. Other good finds were a single flyby Solitary Sandpiper (99% certain) which I first took to be a snipe, but the bill was way too small, and it wasn't Spotted or Dunlin, and the flight profile fit Solitary. A juvie Northern Harrier was soaring over the bridge area late in the AM, as were many Red-tails. A single juvie Cooper's Hawk was around all morning, from one side of the lake to the other. Nothing much in the Ten-mile Creek area. Cedar Waxwings, and Yellow-rumps mostly. Also seen were Fox Sparrows, Swamps, Songs, White-throats, loyts of juncos, Kingfishers, a lateish Eastern Phoebe by the trail leading to the dike near the boat ramp. At least 3 D.C. Cormorants were still present. Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================