Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:31:17 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: John Churchill Subject: Rocky Gap (first signs of waterfowl ?) and belated Allegany sightings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Rocky Gap State Park (Allegany County, MD) this morning 7:15 - 7:45 am Common Loon, 2 Ruddy Duck, 20 Lesser Scaup, 5 Mallard, 109 Am. Coot, 1 Killdeer, 1 Belted Kingfisher, 1 Chipping Sparrow, 2 Song Sparrow, 1 House Sparrow, 1 Oct 12th at North Branch (with Ray Kiddy) Am. Green-winged Teal, 8 Blue-winged Teal, 7 Common Snipe, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Solitary Sand, 1 Baird's Sand, 1 Pectoral Sand, 4 Am. Pipit, 1 (maybe 2) Chimney Swift, 1 Oct 12th at Town Hill (in dense fog) 1st Junco for the season (1 ind.) WT Sparrow Red-headed Woodpecker (flyby) No Hawks though Ray Kiddy reported seeing one sharpie after I left ====================================================== John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 West Virginia University ext. 4458 Natural Resource Analysis Center Fax (304) 293-3752 P.O. Box 6108 Morgantown, WV 26506-6108 webpage: http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================