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3/25 Garrett Co: RBMergs, Bonaparte Gulls

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Tom Feild

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Tom Feild

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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:29:09 -0500

Hi,

I spend Sunday birding Garrett County.  The birding was not as good as on 
Saturday but there were still some nice birds around.  Also still lots of 
ice on Deep Creek Lake and piles of snow on north facing slopes.

Youghiogheny Lake:  Fairly dead.  Several Wood Ducks

Deep Creek Lake:
HoGrebe - 2
PBGrebe - 4
Wood Ducks - 2
Scaup spp - 2
RNDucks - 2
Bufflehead - 5
RBMergs - 6

Ponds north of Oakland:
RNDuck - 33
LeScaup - 5
Bufflehead - 3
HoMerg - 2
AmCoot - 1
Mallard, CaGo
Kingfisher - 1

Broadford Lake:
PBGrebe - 2
Gadwall - 3
GWTeal - 1
LeScaup - 20
RNDuck - 90
HoMerg - 9
RBMerg - 30
Mallard, CaGoose
AMCoot - 5
BONAPARTE's GULLS - 5

Oakland - Cooper's Hawk

Trout Run Pond
Wood Duck - 2
LeScaup - 14

Jennings Randolph Lake:
PBGrebe - 1
DCCorm - 1
HoGrebe - 4
RNDuck - 14
Ruddy Duck - 2
RBMerg - 17

Savage Reservoir:
GWTeal - 2
Gadwall - 3
AmWigeon - 2
RNDuck - 10
Scaup spp - 10
Mallard, CaGo
Pileated Woodpecker - 1

I ended the day with a nice hike from the reservoir up onto Savage 
Mountain.  A great hike, but few birds.  I have seen Grouse and Turkey 
there in the past, but not yesterday.


Tom



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