Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:57:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds 3/17/04 Comments: cc: Sharon Schwemmer , Greg Klein , Gail Frantz , Don Jewell , Dave Hudgins , Dave Harvey , Bill Ellis , Tom Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I visited Liberty Lake and Piney Run Park today. Both showed signs = of new arrivals. Liberty: Common Loon 1 in breeding plumage, a sure sign of a migrant Double-crested Cormorant 4, earliest record for Carroll County Canada Goose 60 Mallard 1 Common Merganser 27 Coot 1 Ring-billed Gull 44 Phoebe 1 =20 Piney Run: Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 6 Great Blue Heron 3, new arrivals Canada Goose 100 Black Duck 10 Mallard 4 Shoveler 1 Pintail 2 Canvasback 30 Ring-necked Duck 60 Lesser Scaup 20 Bufflehead 20 Hooded Merganser 15 Common Merganser 90 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 6 Coot 5 Ring-billed Gull 15 Phoebe 1 =20 Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================