Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:35:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Canvasback, Common Goldeneye, Chipping Sparrow at Loch Raven Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit After a birding hiatus due to the cold, wind, and my laziness, I joined John Landers and Paul Noell, yesterday February 2, at the Skeet and Trap Shooting area of Loch Raven Reservoir. Highlights included first Canvasback and Common Goldeneye (one each) seen by us this year on the reservoir, as well as the continuing presence of Chipping Sparrows. The full list is as follows: Pied-billed Grebe Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mute Swan Tundra Swan American Wigeon Mallard Canvasback Redhead Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Brown-headed Cowbird House Sparrow Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================