Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:59:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Shaffer Subject: Upper Marlboro Ponds & Patuxent River The Patuxent Bird Club and PG Audubon Society had a field trip today to Upper Marlboro area ponds and the Patuxent River at Mount Calvert. Six people were in attendance and highlights included a beautiful Red Headed Woodpecker, a Bald Eagle on a nest (both at Mt. Calvert), five or so Wilson's Snipe (at Schoolhouse Pond), close views of both Kinglets, a very high flyover flock of Tundra Swans, and several Blue Winged Teal, as well as numerous other waterfowl. The trip list was as follows: Pied-billed Grebe Mute Swans Tundra Swans Canada Geese Mallards Wood Ducks Ring-necked Ducks American Wigeon Green Winged Teal Blue Winged Teal Black Ducks Gadwall American Coot Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Bald Eagle Red Shouldered Hawk Red Tailed Hawk Osprey American Kestrel Northern Harrier Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red Bellied Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Wilson's Snipe Golden Crowned Kinglet Ruby Crowned Kinglet Carolina Wren Song Sparrow White Throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (heard only) Brown Creeper Carolina Chicadee Tufted Titmouse House Finch American Robin Cedar Waxwing Red Winged Blackbird Brown Headed Cowbird Common Grackle European Starling House Sparrow Dark eyed Junco Blue Jay Cardinal Eastern Phoebe Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Northern Mockingbird Fred Shaffer Patuxent MOS glaucousgull1611@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================