Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 13:01:19 -0400 Reply-To: Robert Ringler Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Birds seen at Piney Run Park on Saturday, April 22, 2000: Common Loon 28 - unusual to have so many on the lake, most took off = later Pied-billed Grebe 2 Red-necked Grebe 2 in partial breeding plumage Double-crested Cormorant 2 adults Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 1 Canada Goose 12 Mallard 10 Ring-necked Duck 1 male Bufflehead 1 female Hooded Merganser 2, a pair Red-breasted Merganser 3, 2 females & 1 male Ruddy Duck 10, some in partial breeding plumage Osprey 2 Broad-winged Hawk 9 in one kettle Kestrel 1 apparently migrating Coot 20 Bonaparte's Gull 19, all plumages Ring-billed Gull 4 immatures Blue Jay, carrying nesting material Swallows, hundreds, including Tree, Rough-wing, and Barn Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Myrtle Warbler 10 (first migrants seen at home last evening) Northern Waterthrush, heard one singing Junco 1 still at my feeder at home Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================