Conowingo Report

Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 19:04:48 -0500 

        This is the Comnowingo Dam report for April 4, 1998. Observer was
Rick Blom from 3:30 - 5:15 p.m. Overcast, cool, damp, breezy.

Double-crested Cormorant        145
Great Blue Heron                80 (at least 30 sitting on nests)
Black-crowned Night-Heron       2 (adults in tree where nest was last year)
Canada Goose                    2
Black Vulture                   110
Turkey Vulture                  30
Osprey                          7
Bald Eagle                      3 (2 ad; 1 imm)
Great Black-backed Gull         16
Herring Gull                    9
Ring-billed Gull                34
gull sp.                        2500 (flying high downriver)
Rock Dove                       50
Mourning Dove                   2
Tree Swallow                    400
Barn Swallow                    4
Rough-winged Swallow            1
Eastern Phoebe                  2
Winter Wren                     1
Carolina Wren                   1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher           1
crow sp.                        16
Carolina Chickadee              1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet            5
European Starling               40
Yellow-rumped Warbler           20
Palm Warbler                    2
Common Grackle                  300
Red-winged Blackbird            25

Butterflies
Cabbage White                   3

In Bloom
White Trillium
Dutchman's Breeches
Heal-all
Gill-over-the-ground
Pennsylvania Bittercress
Spring Beauty
Garlic Mustard (very tangy taste this spring)
Common Chickweed
May Apple
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Spring Cress
Dandelion (in seed already)
Skunk Cabbage

"Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being
offensive."  Josephine Tey

Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland