Date:         Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:34:05 -0400
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From:         Robert Ringler <ringler@QIS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Ft. McHenry Big Sit (10/13)
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Keith,
    How was the Acadian Flycatcher identified?  This would be the third
latest record for the state.

Bob Ringler

----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Eric Costley <oriolekec1@COMCAST.NET>
To: <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Ft. McHenry Big Sit (10/13)


> The Ft. McHenry Bit Sit was very successful; we counted 772 birds of 66
> species in seventeen hours.  Last year we had 55 species in sixteen hours.
> The park service erected a sixteen foot tower that gave us a great view of
> the Steinwig maintenance yard where we found the Clay-colored, Savannah,
> Chipping, Swamp, Song, Lincoln's, White-throated, and Field Sparrows.
Other
> highlights included finding six American Black Duck in the predawn hours -
> they were gone at daybreak; a singing Marsh Wren; a female Black and White
> Warbler; a Palm Warbler; and a Winter Wren.
>
> THE LIST:
> Pied-billed Grebe - 1
> Double-crested Cormorant - 170
> Great Blue Heron - 5
> Canada Goose - 31
> Mute Swan - 2
> American Black Duck - 6
> Mallard - 18
> Osprey - 1
> Red-tailed Hawk - 1
> American Kestrel - 1
> Killdeer - 3
> Spotted Sandpiper - 1
> Laughing Gull - 121
> Ring Billed Gull - 2
> Herring Gull - 3
> Great Black-backed Gull - 5
> Caspian Tern - 1
> Forester's Tern - 8
> Rock Dove - 6
> Mourning Dove - 25
> Chimney Swift - 14
> Belted Kingfisher - 2
> Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4
> Northern Flicker - 4
> Eastern Wood-peewee - 2
> Acadian Flycatcher - 1

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