Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:03:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Loch Raven Reservoir 12/04/01 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit John Lnaders, Drew Thornblad, and I birded Loch Raven Reservoir in Baltimore County, Tuesday morning, December 4. Highlights included our first Common Loon of the season, as well as two Redhead. Other highlights included a Bonaparte's Gull, six Hermit Thrush, and five species of woodpeckers (all MD species except Red-headed). The full list of forty-seven species is as follows: Pied-billed Grebe 13 Canada Goose 321 American Wigeon 75 Gadwall 3 Mallard 10 American Black Duck 12 Northern Shoveler 1 Redhead 2 Ring-necked Duck 125 Hooded Merganser 13 Great Blue Heron 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 American Coot 700 Ring-billed Gull 100 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Common Loon 1 Mourning Dove 3 Barred Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 6 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 12 American Crow 17 Fish Crow 2 Cedar Waxwing 2 Eastern Bluebird 9 Hermit Thrush 6 American Robin 11 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 20 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Carolina Chickadee 15 Tufted Titmouse 7 American Goldfinch 5 Fox Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 7 White-throated Sparrow 105 Dark-eyed Junco 14 Field Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 19 Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================