Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:11:56 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: Cecil County Bird Club Waterfowl Trip-12/08 Greetings: Today the Cecil County Bird Club had its December field trip to search the county for waterfowl. Unfortunately some of the target areas were frozen over and consequently overlooked. However 3 (Parke John, Marcia Watson- Whitmyre, and Ken Drier) hardy souls joined me at the Perry Point Va Complex/Perryville Town Park to look for waterfowl. It turned out to be a decent day with 53 species seen including 21 species of waterfowl! Most species were seen in good numbers especially Canvasbacks (around 250 birds +/-). Large numbers of Hooded Mergansers (50+) were also around. Keys areas scoped were Mill Creek/Furnace Bay and the Susquehanna Flats. Waterfowl seen/heard: Pied-billed Grebe American Coot Tundra Swan Mute Swan Canada Goose Mallard American Black Duck American Widgeon Gadwall Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Green-winged Teal (heard by Marcia) Blue-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ruddy Duck Bufflehead Common Merganser Hooded Merganser Other Species seen/heard: Great Blue Heron Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Killdeer Bald Eagle Belted Kingfisher Morning Dove Rock Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Brown Creeper (6-10) White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Common Grackle American Crow Blue Jay European Starling Northern Mockingbird Northern Cardinal Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Dark-eyed Junco White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow House Sparrow American Goldfinch House Finch Good Birding, Chris Starling North East, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================