Crossbills, and Middle Creek PA
Stephen G Sanford (tanager@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us)
Sun, 08 Mar 1998 11:43:47 -0500
Maryland:
Saturday morning (Mar 7)I visited Pine Knob Rd, Carroll Co. around
8:30. Frank Witebski had been there since 6:30 ! Unfortunately, neither
he nor I, nor several other observers saw or heard any crossbills as of
the time I left, around 9:30. Red-breasted Nuthatches were still
plentiful.
To the best of my knowledge, the last time they were seen or heard there
was Saturday morning Feb 28. Looks like they're really gone.
Pennsylvania:
Later (Mar7) Gail Frantz and I went up to Middle Creek WMA (north of
Lancaster PA). The Snow Geese and other waterfowl numbers and variety
seemed relatively low: Perhaps 3-5000 Snow Geese (about 5% blue phase),
maybe 50 Tundra Swans, 50 Ruddy Ducks, only 3 Common Mergansers. A Bald
Eagle flying over put the Snow Geese into that wonderful mass take-off
that is always so spectacular. The pond just across Kleinfeltersville
Rd from the main lake had a Shoveller, 5 Ring-necks, 2 Gadwalls, a
Bufflehead.
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Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD
tanager@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us