Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:37:13 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Mid-Winter Bird Count - Granite, Baltimore County Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I managed to find thirty-nine species in 6.5 hours during the Baltimore Mid-winter Bird Count. I had a wonderful 6.25 mile walk in the snow and enjoyed seeing a nice collection of common winter birds. With the light bouncing of the snow several birds looked as if they had new, brilliant paint jobs. A female Eastern Towhee, a male Northern Flicker, Eastern Bluebirds [and even the Field and Song Sparrow] impressed me with their coloration. And now, the "I can't believe I missed them" list: Common Merganser, Great Blue Heron, Canada Goose, Mallard, Wild Turkey, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, House Sparrow(!?!). All these bird were counted in previous years. 4 Black Vulture 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Ring-billed Gull 31 Rock Pigeon 4 Mourning Dove 11 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 10 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 8 Pileated Woodpecker 6 Blue Jay 239 American Crow 4 Fish Crow 665 Crow Sp. 22 Carolina Chickadee 25 Tufted Titmouse 11 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 6 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 14 Golden-crowned Kinglet 9 Eastern Bluebird 9 Northern Mockingbird 10 European Starling 1 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 43 Song Sparrow 82 White-throated Sparrow 148 Dark-eyed Junco 25 Northern Cardinal 4 House Finch 12 American Goldfinch 39 Species 1431 Birds Keith Eric Costley oriolekec1@comcast.net Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================