Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:04:53 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Horsehead Wetlands Center report Comments: cc: wtna@shore.intercom.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is the report of Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville, MD on February 27, 2000. Birds seen 12 Horned Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 14 Mute Swan 40 Tundra Swan (a single flock of 42 headed N) 1 Snow Goose 280 Canada Goose (8 flocks of 902 headed N) 3 Wood Duck 8 American Black Duck 93 Mallard 2 American Wigeon 3 Northern Shoveler 1 Northern Pintail 606 Canvasback 3 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Greater Scaup 62 Lesser Scaup 77 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 3 White-winged Scoter 11 Northern Ruddy 2 Bald Eagle (adult and 3rd winter) 3 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Coot 13 Ring-billed Gull 22 Herring Gull 9 Mourning Dove 2 Great Horned Owl (around 6:30am) 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 14 American Crow 7 Fish Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch (no Brown-headed) 2 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher (Cabin Creek Rd.) 23 European Starling 187 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Fox Sparrow (Marshy Creek Trail near East Blind) 10 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-throated Sparrow 201 "Slate-colored" Junco 12 Northern Cardinal 104 Red-winged Blackbird 268 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 58 species Also during lunch break at the end of Piney Narrows Rd. between Chesapeake Exploration Center and Piney Narrows Yacht Haven office: 213 Lesser Scaup, 3 Mute Swan, 2 Ring-billed Gull, 5 Herring Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Mallard, and 1 dom. Muscovy Duck. On our way back to work across the old drawbridge just below the bigger Kent Narrow Bridge, Clinton and I saw a small raft of scaups and counted 53 Lesser Scaup and 2 Mallard. There are several hundreds of scaup in almost every water along Rt 18 in Kent Island. Earlier in the morning on my way to work, there are 8 Ring-necked Duck, 6 Lesser Scaup, 3 Northern Ruddy, 4 American Black Duck, 5 Mallard, and 2 Mute Swan at the Bay Bridge Pond. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================