Saturday/Sunday Birding
Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:57:59 -0500
Saturday Morning I had a few hours before the Budget Committee
meeting so I drove to Black Hill Park. Best birds there were 9
PIED-BILLED GREBE, 275 TUNDRA SWAN, about 30 RING-NECKED DUCK, 3
WOOD DUCK near the boat launch area, and a single SPOTTED SANDPIPER
feeding along the banks of a small puddle near the boat launch area
as well. This is almost implausibly early, as my earliest prior
observation of this species in MD was in early April a few years
back.
While working on the MOS budget for the coming fiscal year we were
treated to a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at Paul Zucker's feeders in
Potomac.
This morning, Sunday March 1, Fran and I went up to Carroll County to
poke around. We had virtually no bird activity at all along Pine
Knob Road but Deer Park Road yielded WINTER WREN, flyovers of about
35 TUNDRA SWAN, two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, and one singing PINE
WARBLER.
Piney Run Park had a flock of about 20 or so COMMON MERGANSERS and
one adult fly-over BALD EAGLE.
Cheers,
Norm
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net