Hi Folks!
 
Yesterday was miserable.....rain,rain, rain except for a short break while  
at Conowingo Dam
 
I started along Chelsea Road and scoped a large barren area where there is  
grading in preparatrion for building some warehouses:
 
American Golden Plover 1 juv.
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 8
Horned Lark 28
Brown-headed Cowbird 75
 
between 9:30 and 10:30 there was a break in the rain at Conowingo Dam where  
I found a small mixed feeding flock:
Location:     Conowingo Dam (Harford County)
Observation  date:     9/27/08
Notes:     short break in the  rain.overcast.69F
Number of species:      37

Mallard     3
Double-crested Cormorant   50
Great Blue Heron     33
Black Vulture   10
Turkey Vulture     10
Osprey   1
Bald Eagle     11
Sharp-shinned Hawk   1
Ring-billed Gull     24
Herring Gull   1
Caspian Tern     1
Forster's Tern   9
Rock Pigeon     50
Mourning Dove   1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy  Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)   2
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern  Wood-Pewee     4
Alder Flycatcher     1  [Late]
Blue Jay     1
Fish Crow      4
Tree Swallow     8
Carolina Chickadee      1
Carolina Wren     3
House Wren      1
American Robin     3
Northern Parula      5
Chestnut-sided Warbler     1
Magnolia Warbler   2
Yellow-throated Warbler (albilora)     1  [Late]
Palm Warbler (Yellow)     1 [my first Yellow Palm of  the Fall]
American Redstart     1
Common Yellowthroat   2
Northern Cardinal     4
Indigo Bunting   1
Common Grackle     2

This report was  generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Today I took a chance and spent 6 hours at Dam #3 in Washing County. The  
spot I use is accessed from West Virginia. Take Rt.340 from Frederick, cross the  
Potomac and then cross the Shenandoah. Go past the traffic light for 
Washington  Street [the main road into Harper's Ferry] about 1 mile and turn west onto 
 Bakerton Road.  After going through the 1-car-at-a-time under the RR, turn  
right then go about .5 miles downriver to the former electric generating 
station  where you can walk out onto part of the old dam [a nice concrete platform 
with  safety rails].  I took a chair. Although there were more passerines 
close  to where I was sitting, they were in WV and not included in this tally
Location:     C&O Canal--Dam #3
Observation  date:     9/28/08
Notes:     overcast to PC;  light rain until 10:30AM  70F  W5
Number of species:   28

Canada Goose     367
Wood Duck   7
Mallard     3
Double-crested Cormorant   6
Great Blue Heron     5
Great Egret   3
Black Vulture     62
Turkey Vulture   7
Osprey     2
Bald Eagle      3
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk   2
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)      1
Black-bellied Plover     5  flybys
Killdeer   2
Spotted Sandpiper     2
Least  Sandpiper     1
Chimney Swift     20
Belted  Kingfisher     1
Eastern Phoebe     3
Blue  Jay     126
American Crow     51
Tree  Swallow     100
Northern Rough-winged Swallow   80
Tufted Titmouse     2
Cedar Waxwing   45
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     1
American  Goldfinch     4

This report was generated automatically by  eBird v2(_http://ebird.org_ 
(http://ebird.org) )


Maybe next weekend will have better weather,,,
 
Good Birding!
 
Jim
 
Jim Stasz
North Beach MD
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ps: 3 RT Hummingbirds at my feeders...wating for something different   ;-)
 
 
 
 



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