Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:41:39 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Burchett Subject: Lower Eastern Shore 1/24/04 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Lower Eastern Shore 1/24/04 Observers: Mike Burchett, Jim Stasz, Matt Hafner Weather: Low to mid 20s for most of the day with snow during the late morning. Elliot Island (0715 ? 1100 hours) Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 10 Canada Goose 18 Wood Duck 100 American Black Duck 35 Common Goldeneye 25 Bald Eagle 11 Northern Harrier 16 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper?s Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rough-legged Hawk 1 dark morph Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Wilson?s Snipe 2 American Woodcock 2 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull 120 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 3 Short-eared Owl 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 6 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 12 Brown-headed Nuthatch 8 Brown Creeper 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 Eastern Bluebird 4 Hermit Thrush 2 Red-winged Blackbird 150 American Robin 80 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 160 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Eastern Towhee 2 Savannah Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 16 Swamp Sparrow 19 White-throated Sparrow 16 Dark-eyed Junco 40 Northern Cardinal 3 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Salisbury Landfill (1130 ? 1400 hours) Herring Gull 1000 Ring-billed Gull 250 Great Black-backed Gull 50 Lesser Black-backed Gull 6 (4 adult, 2 first winter) Thayer?s Gull 1 second winter Iceland Gull 2 first winter Nelson?s Gull 1 third winter?? American Crow 10 Fish Crows several hundred Hairy Woodpecker 1 Snow Bunting 1 flying overhead for several minutes European Starling several hundred Route 50 (1415 ? 1445 hours) Canada Goose 400 Snow Geese 260 white morph (1 blue morph) Ross?s Goose 1 white morph Greater White-fronted Goose 1 greenland race Ocean City Inlet (1515 ? 1600 hours) Red-throated Loon 2 Common Loon 7 Red-breasted Merganser 4 Ruddy Turnstone 30 Sanderling 20 Great Cormorant 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Bufflehead 20 Rock Pigeon 16 Purple Sandpiper 5 Peregrine Falcon 1 Common Goldeneye 1 female American Black Duck 25 Greater Scaup 1 King Eider 1 at the end of Assateague jetty Common Eider 4 south of Assateague jetty Black Scoter 1 Surf Scoter 15 Oldsquaw 8 Bonaparte?s Gull 2 --there was a sizeable feeding flock of gulls in the ocean but only 2 were bonapartes with nothing else interesting seen. 17th Street Flats and Skimmer Island (1600 ? 1645 hours) Ring-billed Gull numerous Herring Gull numerous Great Black-backed Gull 10 Dunlin 200 Sanderling 20 Black-bellied Plover 3 American Oystercatcher 25 Lesser Scaup 17 Mallard 4 Greater Scaup 2 American Black Duck 50 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Bufflehead 2 Brant 35 Belted Kingfisher 1 Northern Shoveler 40 Ocean Pines (1700 ? 1715 hours) Canvasback 200 Lesser Scaup 1 Hooded Merganser 3 Snow Goose 4 Mallard 25 _________________________________________________________________ Find high-speed ?net deals ? comparison-shop your local providers here. https://broadband.msn.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================