Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:55:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Howard County Today Comments: cc: Kevin Graff Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Nancy and I and Kevin Graff participated in the Howard County Mid-winter Count today, February 7. We did an area from Woodstock Road in the east to Route 32 in the west, and from the county border in the north to Route 99 in the south. Our totals were as follows: Black Vulture 12 Turkey Vulture 19 Canada Goose 35 Mallard 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 5 Peregrine Falcon 1 Ring-billed Gull 22 Rock Pigeon 15 Mourning Dove 51 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 6 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 25 American Crow 23 Crow sp 12 Carolina Chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 5 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 30 Northern Mockingbird 12 European Starling 36 Cedar Waxwing 15 American Tree Sparrow 7 Field Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 64 Dark-eyed Junco 113 Northern Cardinal 16 Red-winged Blackbird 4 House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 117 Total Species 38 Total individuals 705 Elliot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================