Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:59:14 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Viginia Rail at Ft McHenry (01-30) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Jim Peters called me on Friday, January 30th reporting a Virginia Rail in the mitigated wetland at Fort MCHenry. The wetland area is closed to the public due to construction on the sea wall; but there is a very nice collection of waterfowl around the fort. Jim also mentioned seeing: Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe (?), Red-necked Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard, Canvasback, Redhead, Greater Scaup, Lesser Scaup, White-winged Scoter (1), Oldsquaw, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye 2 female), Red-breasted Merganser (2), Ruddy Duck, Bald Eagle (they may be building a nest on the middle branch), Virginia Rail (1), American Coot, Ring-billed Gull, Mourning Dove, American Crow, Fish Crow, Northern Mockingbird, European Starling, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Brown-headed Cowbird, House Sparrow 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================