Carroll Co. Birds
Robert Ringler (ringler@cct.infi.net)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 08:15:45 -0800
I spent the weekend scouting for the Carroll County Winter Bird
Count on Saturday, January 23 (all welcome). Highlights were:
2 Wood Ducks sitting on the ice of Westminster Reservoir on 1/2.
15 Redheads at Piney Run on 1/1 along with 275 Ring-necked Ducks
and 160 Hooded Mergansers.
2 Harriers at the owl field near Taneytown.
1 Snipe in the spring-fed stream at Wakefield.
1 Bonaparte's Gull flying by my house on 1/1 (a new yard bird);
then 22 at Piney Run which is only about a mile away.
4 Short-eared Owls at the owl field near Taneytown on 1/3.
100 Horned Larks near Jasontown on 1/3.
15 Robins, a late migrating flock dropping in to Piney Run on 1/2
1 Lapland Longspur in the Horned Lark flock near Jasontown on 1/3
Low lights: 1 Black Swan at Piney Run on 1/1 and a Ruddy Shelduck in a
flock of geese at Meadow Branch on 1/3.
Anyone interested in helping with the Carroll winter count please
e-mail me. We have lots of territory with very few people.
Bob Ringler