Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:09:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds 3/4/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The heat from the past few days finally cleared the ice from the = local lakes so I visited Piney Run Park and Liberty today. Piney Run: Pied-billed Grebe 1 Canada Goose 1,600 Gadwall 10 Baldpate 12 Black Duck 20 Mallard 20 Pintail 1 Green-winged Teal 5 Canvasback 26 Redhead 4 Ring-necked Duck 80 Lesser Scaup 20 Bufflehead 30 Goldeneye 3 Hooded Merganser 75 Common Merganser 275 Red-breasted Merganser 9 Ruddy Duck 15 Coot 20 Killdeer 1 (heard flying over) Ring-billed Gull 15 Barred Owl heard 2 Fox Sparrow 2 Liberty Lake: Horned Grebe 2 Canada Goose 20 (10 pairs) Tundra Swan 31 (flying over) Wood Duck (a pair) Gadwall 3 Black Duck 2 Mallard 7 Scaup, sp. 2 Common Merganser 54 Ring-billed Gull 45 Fish Crow 56 (flying east across the lake in late afternoon) Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================