Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:20:23 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: first birds of the year...'04 Sorry about the last post! it should have read; Greetings, Unfortunatly I awoke New Years Day at work extremely tired from staying up to ring in the new year and having to pull an alarm watch from 1AM to 4AM, so needless to say I did not get much birding in on the first. However I did manage to hit a few of my avorite spots here at the Edgewood Area of APG in Harford County and Perry Point in Cecil County before I went home to sleep. Perry Point was virtually viod of all birds no doubt due to the large numbers of hunters in a relativley small amount of space. As a result, I tallied only 37 speceis to my new year list but at least its a start. Bird seen were... Edgewood Area (APG) Harford County: Canada Goose (100+) Mallard (15) Common Merganser (26 F, 1 M) Ring-billed Gull (37) Herring Gull (31) Great Black-backed Gull (12) Red-tailed Hawk (2) Cooper's Hawk (1 Imm) Belted Kingfisher (1) Red-bellied Woodpecker (2) Downy Woodpecker (1) Northern Flicker (2) RED-HEADED WOODPECKER (1) Carolina Wren (1) American Crow (20) Northern Mockingbird (3) Monring Dove (6) Rock Dove (15) Starling (100+) Blue Jay (5) Eastern Bluebird (6) Carolina Chickadee (2) White-throated Sparrow (5) Dark-eyed Junco (8) Eastern Towhee (2) Red-winged Blackbird (22) Northern Cardinal (1 SINGING!) American Goldfich (2) House Sparrow (2) Perry Point (additions to year list only) Cecil County: Great Blue Herron (8) American Black Duck (10) Canvasback (120+) Bufflehead (50+) Ruddy Duck (12) American Coot (6) North East Town Park Cecil County: Turkey Vulture (23) Black Vultlure (3) Fish Crow (50+) Good Birding and Happy New Year, Chris Starling North East, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================