Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:42:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: danny poet Subject: Re: Wye Island Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi Karen And Bill sounds like you had a great outing to wye Island . You had to go and out do me on the Red Headed woodpeckers Good job . I was wondering were did you hear or see the Great Horned Owls as that is in my Breeding Bird atlas Block. Great Horned Owls Are now breeding. I need to try to confrim Them there . Thanks Danny PS Have you or are you close to move to your new Home yet? >From: Karen Harris >Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Wye Island >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:25:36 -0500 > >Bill and I went to Wye Island yesterday. Our first find was a AM. >KESTREL eating while sitting on a fence post. While we were watching he >slid his prey into the hole where the rails of the fence go. While >doing this his tail was bobbing up and down. Is this usual behavior? >After that we had a great look at a GOLDEN EAGLE. The ducks and geese >were in small pockets of open water so we were able to look at many at >one time. We saw RING-NECKED DUCKS, BUFFLEHEADS, a pair of COMMON >GOLDENEYES, SCAUP, CANVASBACKS, MALLARDS and AM. BLACK DUCKS. We saw a >lone SNOW GOOSE mixed in with CANADAS in one field. We went looking for >the RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and found him at the lay-by where Danny Poet >has spotted him. We moved about a half a mile farther on the road, got >out to scan the many sparrows on the road and two RED-HEADED >WOODPECKERS flew in. If one of them was the first one spotted he flew >very fast. I would like to say there were three. We ended up the day >spotting ALL WOODPECKERS. We heard two GREAT HORNED OWLS talking back >and forth and spotted both of them. Going back over the bridge to the >mainland we were amazed to see 11 BALD EAGLES sharing the ice with >geese and ducks in a small open spot of water. One eagle was eating a >goose, another eating something we could not identify and all but two >watching the eaters. They were mature and immature eagles. A pair of >mature eagles were nesting on the far shore. The nest was about 10 feet >deep. One was sitting on the nest. The other flew across over the geese >and ducks making them fly. Otherwise the geese and ducks tolerated the >eagles standing on the ice all along one side. It was a great site to >see. All in all it was a good day. > >Karen Harris >Kent Island, Maryland >keharris@myshorelink.com > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine @ MSN. http://wine.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================