Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:51:05 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Chesapeake Bay E.C./Terrapin Nature Area, 11/22//03 In-Reply-To: <003c01c3b093$8deb6040$5b62a3d1@oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Baltimore Bird Club trip, 11/22/03 Leader: Kevin Graff Co-Leader: Pete Webb Observers: Steve Sanford, Gail Frantz, Keith Eric Costley, Mark Linardi, Jim & Sue Grady Weather: MS all day, 50 to 63 degree, breezy Highlight of the trip was a falconer's Harris Hawk flew by the sparrow platform overlook the meadow at Terrapin Nature Area and allows good close-up view. One young biker was interesting in what we're looking at and was excited to see the hawk through a scope. Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead" 8 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Black Vulture 9 Turkey Vulture 639 Canada Goose 17 Mute Swan 6 Am. Black Duck 49 Mallard 75 N. Pintail 36 Lesser Scaup 58 scaup sp. 3 Surf Scoter (all females) 252 Bufflehead 2 Hooded Merganser 2186 Ruddy Duck 1 Bald Eagle 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Killdeer 7 Laughing Gull 16 Ring-billed Gull 8 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 10 Forster's Tern 1 Rock Pigeon 3 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 7 N. Flicker 14 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 44 Carolina Chickadee 1 Winter Wren 18 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 313 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 22 European Starling 1 American Pipit 54 Cedar Waxwing 155 Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 110 "Slate-colored" Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 128 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Eastern Meadowlark?? in distance 65 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Purple Finch 4 House Finch 18 Am. Goldfinch 4408 58 species Terrapin Nature Area, Log Canoe Circle, Kent Island 20 Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 8 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Turkey Vulture 105 Canada Goose 8 Mute Swan 2 American Black Duck 23 Mallard 126 Bufflehead 6 Common Merganser 1 Cooper's Hawk 7 Red-tailed hawk 2 Laughing Gull 11 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull 11 Great Black-backed gull 7 Forster's Tern 17 Rock Pigeon 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker 18 Blue Jay 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Marsh Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird - flyby w/ robins 57 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 15 European Starling 7 Cedar Waxwing 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1? Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 15 Song Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 6 "Slate-colored" Junco 20 Red-winged Blackbird 541 38 species 4,949 birds, 63 species total Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD weekday Ocean City, MD weekend ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================