Buff-breasted, etc...
KurtCapt87@aol.com
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 00:29:50 EDT
Folks,
Did a little birding today. Highlights are...
C&O canal, Pennyfield to Violette's lock, 0730-1030, 68-81 F, slt breeze
Osprey
a Barred Owl
the usual 5 sp. of woodpeckers, in good numbers
12+ Eastern Peewees
3 Great Cresteds
2 Acadians
1 Least (fresh plummage, prob bird of year?)
2 House Wrens
2 Yellow-throated Vireos
1 White-eye V
12+ Red-eye V
1 Parula
1 Black & White
1 Chestnut-sided
1 Redstart
1 Common Yellowthroat
2 Balto O's
John Brown Rd Turf Farm area, 1200-1230, 80-84 F, slt breeze
1 Osprey
6 Am Golden Plovers
30+ Killdeer
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
3 Pectoral Sandpipers
1 Least Sandpiper
2 Buff-breasteds (juvies, near the irrigation pipes 20 yds from the road)
and Pileated Woodpecker (in the distance), Bluebirds, and adult and juvie
Phoebe
Ridgely Sewage Plant (turn off Rt 404 to Rt 480 BEFORE crossing the Choptank),
85-90 F, getting a bit windy (does anyone work there? oh, it stinks too)
10+ Mallards
4 Green-wing Teal
2 Blue-wing Teal
1 N. Shoveler
2 Ruddy Ducks
3 Spotted Sandpipers
1 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1 White-rumped Sandpiper (significant streaking on the flanks)
Kurt Gaskill