Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:04:22 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: parke Subject: Dec. 3rd at Eastern Neck NWR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cecil Bird Club's trip to Eastern Neck NWR was held on Dec. 3rd. We had a good day with lots of Towhees and three Red-headed Woodpeckers along the trail just before Bogle's Wharf. Total list below: Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 4 Great Blue Heron 4 Black Vulture 2 Canada Goose 600 (200 @ Chesapeake Farms) Mute Swan 2 Tundra Swan 350 Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 30 Mallard 20 Northern Shoveler 12 @ Chesapeake Farms Northern Pintail 40 (20 @ Chesapeake Farms) Canvasback 2 Ring-necked Duck 4 @ Chesapeake Farms Greater Scaup 300 Lesser Scaup 400 Bufflehead 50 Common Goldeneye 100 Red-breasted Merganser 40 Ruddy Duck 500 Bald Eagle 5 Northern Harrier 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 while driving American Kestrel 4 while driving Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Red-headed Woodpecker 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 4 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 8 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 2 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 6 Hermit Thrush 2 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 12 Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 4 American Goldfinch 2 Total Species 55 Total Birds 2392 Parke parke@del.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================