Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:13:20 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tammy Schwaab Subject: CCBC field trip to PRP 2/29: trip list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Carroll County bird club had a nice showing of participants this a.m. at Piney Run Park. Field trip time: 08:00 - 12 noon. Sunny, 35 degrees at 08:00 and up to 60 by noon. Little to no breeze. Trip List: pied-billed grebe black vulture turkey vulture canada goose greylag goose american wigeon american black duck mallard no. pintail canvasback ring-necked duck bufflehead hooded merganser common merg. reb-breasted merg. ruddy duck adult bald eagle, scoped hunting, and hanging directly over water, and perched in trees directly across from boat ramps. red-shouldered hawks- several accipiter species red-tailed hawk american coot ring-billed gull herring gull mourning dove 2 barred owls- courtship calls- followed by great visuals on one and a brief glance at the 2nd - whose atlas area?? red-bellied woodpecker yellow-bellied sapsucker-2 downy woodpecker hairy woodpecker pileated woodpecker blue jay american crow fish crow carolina chickadee tufted titmouse red-breasted nuthatch-several white-breasted nuthatch- 2 seen entering a tree cavity brown creeper-2 carolina wren golden-crowned kinglet no. mockingbird euro. starling eastern towhee field sparrow song sparrow white-throated sparrow junco no. cardinal common grackle amer. goldfinch house sparrow total species: 49 Good Birding, Tammy Schwaab CCBC ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================