Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:59:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Sandra Z. Wilson" Subject: Re: C & O Canal--miles 20 and 21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Three of us did miles 120 through 123 (four miles) from Little Pool into Hancock, MD. It snowed about 3" on Friday evening and there was light snow until about noon on Saturday. And cold. We did the same area last winter and the numbers were down. We saw no Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers this year and waterfowl were way down. There were 16 Canada Geese flying, two Mallards, one Common Merg and what we believe were four Common Goldeneye (they were a long way away). Sandy Z. Wilson Lydia Schindler wrote: > > Doing miles 20 and 21 of the C&O Canal, roughly Pennyfield to > Violette's--and on Sunday, not Saturday, by special dispensation--we > had very low numbers of woodland birds, clearly fewer species and > numbers than just a week before. Maybe the 10-degree weather played a > role. But there were good numbers of waterfowl in the Potomac at > Blockhouse Point: over 200 Ring-necked Ducks, plus Am Wigeon, > Bufflehead, Black, Mallard, Gadwall, 1 Common Merg and 2 Redheads. > > Lydia Schindler > Darnestown > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================