Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:41:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sean mccandless Subject: Southern Maryland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today Tom Raub and I did some birding in southern Maryland today. We = started out at Ocean Pines community pond. We did have Hooded Mergs. and = Common Mergs. Thou it was very slow there. We then proceeded to the pond = in West Ocean City, were we had Great numbers of ducks, including = Canvasbacks Red-heads, Hooded Mergs., Shovelers,etc.. Also,there had to = be 25 or 30 Black-crowned Night-Herons.The inlet at O.C. had a good = amount of birds, including 3 Common Eiders, 1 King Eider, all 3 Scoters, = 2 Long-tailed Ducks,Red-breasted Merg.,both Loons,Purple Sandpipers, = Turnstones,and both Cormorants. At Eagles Nest Campground we had, Surf = Scoter, lots of Bufflehead, Red-Breasted Mergs, both Loons, = Dunlin,Sanderlings,Black-bellied Plover,and Brown-Headed Nuthatch. We then proceeded on down to the Vaughn WMA.. Other than about 6 tons of = sparrows, we really couldn't find anything great. We did have a Catbird. Next over to Deal Island, We had 2 color phases of Rough-Legged Hawk, 1 = very, very dark Rail cross the road in front of us.?? Lots of Great = Egrets, and one very slow moving snake. Elliot's Island Road was being hunted and was kind of slow but we did = get another Rough-Legged Hawk, many Bald Eagles, and 2 Short-Eared Owls. = The Owls were out around 4:30 and the RLH, could be seen at the same = area. 12.1 miles south of the Vienna Post office.=20 Sean McCandless =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================