Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:54:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: danny poet Subject: Central Queen Annes Co Birds Comments: cc: lroslund@bluecrab.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all On Tues March 23 , 04 I had the day off so decied to do some birding I did The Route 309 Pond Tour , Most of it any way. For those who do not know this road goes off Rt 213 near centerville Md thru Starr To Rt 404 at Queen Anne and has several farm ponds that can be have interesting birds at times. the First pond 1 mile from 213 held the most birds 3 Black ducks , 8 Tundra Swans , 2 Gadwalls , 17 Green Winged Teal , 39 Ring Necked Ducks , 16 killdeer, 1 adult male Northern Harrier, 1 fish Crow. The third pond on the left at Pemertion farms had About 50 Canada Geese one of which had no white chin strap going up the side of the head It was an all Black head this is pictured in the Sibley guide to birds page 75 , also sibley field guide to eastern birds page 66. all veiwing at these ponds can and should only be done from the road as this all private property. At about 11: 00 Am In Ruthsburrg at the corner of 304 an Dean rd there was a flock of Estmated 4,000 Snow Geese , must be part of the large flock that spent the winter in the general area but kept moving around . I located 1 white Phase Ross's Goose also 1 Immature Blue phase hybrid Snow And Ross' Goose . This Bird Not as small as normal Ross's But smaller than Snows And the bill was very small but not quite Like Ross's and had somewhat of a Grinnig patch on the bill. Also in this Flock was a small Canada Goose . )n March 20 , 04 Reeds Creek near Centreville had 627 Ruddy Ducks one male in complete breeding plumage. On sun March 21 I found a winter Wren in the woods near home on Jos Boyles Rd near Queenstown. Happy Birding Danny Poet Queenstown Md birder231@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get tax tips, tools and access to IRS forms ? all in one place at MSN Money! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/home.asp ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================