Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:48:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: St Michaels Christmas Count (unofficial results) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Les, Western Gull has never before been reported in Maryland. Could you tell us more about it? It will need to be reviewed by the Maryland Records Committee as well as the CBC regional editor. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Les Roslund To: Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] St Michaels Christmas Count (unofficial results) > The St Michaels Christmas Count was held on Sunday, Dec 15. Total bird > numbers and count day species were very close to the results of 2001 > (96 species and 61, 467 individuals). Very few nuthatches of any > kind; very few > kinglets; several more duck species than in the recent unusually warm years; > one huge flock of Wild Turkeys (99 of them); 36,491 Canada Geese (just > 350 more than in 2001); one huge flock of Common Grackles (reported as 10,000). > There were several quite special birds: Painted Bunting, Rufous > Hummingbird, Golden Eagle and Western Gull (3rd year). As mentioned > in a separate posting, both the Hummingbird and the Bunting had been > around for at least 2 weeks, but were not seen today (12/17). The > Western Gull was on > a private property site, and did not stay around long enough to get > photographed. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================