Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:59:08 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Ground Hog Days Birds, Charles Co. Comments: To: SMAS Comments: cc: Bob Boxwell , Miliff@aol.com MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Folks Today I led a dozen local birders through the Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area, Charles Co., MD. The weather cooperated with partly cloudy skies, and a light wind. This site is located off Rt. 231 west of Benedict, MD (De Lorme p. 38, D1). Nice open fields and lots of hedge rows leading down to the Patuxent River. Birds located during the three plus hour fieldtrip were: 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-creasted Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 2 Black Vulture 8 Turkey Vulture several thousand Canada Geese 4 Mute Swan 8 Tundra Swan 8 Mallard 300 Canvasback 8 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 70 Ruddy Duck 2 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 male Merlin 2 American Coot 3 Killdeer 40 Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 25 American Crow 4 Blue Jay 6 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 8 Carolina Wren - nice to see these birds this with us after all the cold weather 2 Eastern Bluebirds 400 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 3 Brown Thrasher 8 European Starling 1 American Pipit - flyover 4 Cedar Waxwings 4 Yellow-rumped Warblers 1 Eastern Towhee 8 American Tree Sparrows - flyover 4 Savannah Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 25 Song Sparrow 35 White-throated Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 10 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbirds 6 House Finch Enjoy your birds. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================