Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:48:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Western MD Birding Comments: cc: Charles Kucera , Fran Pope , Amy Bourque MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I went out to western Maryland to install a small owl nest box in Garrett Co. with Charlie Kucera, and then to meet Bill Hubick for some Washington Co. atlasing. Some of the sightings: Rocky Gap Park, Allegany Co., 3/20: Horned Grebe--2 Ring-necked Duck--40 Long-tailed Duck--1 Hooded Merganser--3 Red-breasted Merganser--2 pairs Tree Swallow--1 Old Legislative Rd., Allegany Co., just south of Woodland: Wild Turkey--pair crossing road Am. Tree Sparrow--1 Savannah Sparrow--1 Fox Sparrow--1 Purple Finch--1 female E. Phoebe--1 singing in town of Lonaconing Funny that I had to go out to Allegany Co. to find my first Tree Swallow and Phoebe of the year. E. Garrett Co.: Wild Turkey--about 10 at corn feeder in yard along Avilton-Lonaconing Rd. Am. Woodcocks--several peenting, with a few flights, just south of George's Creek Church, Avilton-Lonaconing Rd. Barred Owl--one responded to some calling, just north of Little Brown Lake, Avilton-Lonaconing Rd. Edgemont Reservoir, NE Washington Co. (Smithsburg area), 3/21 with Bill Hubick: GB Heron--1 Horned Grebe--2 Wood Duck--2 or 3 Am. Wigeon--4 or 5 Hooded Merganser--3 Am. Coot--2 Unger Rd. (same area): White-crowned Sparrow--1 adult Watery Lane (ditto): Wild (?) Turkey--5; four of them trotted down the road ahead of me, then pulled off into the yard of the house with all the Muscovy Ducks out front. Makes me wonder just how much (if any) wild is in these turkeys. Our few atlas ticks in Washington Co. were pretty hard won in today's nasty wind. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie dy.dx@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================