weekend birding

J B Churchill (jbc@caf.wvu.edu)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:55:28 -0500 (EST) 

Hi Folks,
	I left Friday to try for the missing Kelp Gull.  Stopped at Rocky Gap 
State Park (Allegany Co.)
	35 Canada Geese
	15 Ring-necked Ducks
	5 Lesser Scaup
	1 Red-breasted Merganser
	5 Hooded Mergansers
	4 Redheads
	8 American Coots
Then I stopped in Clear Spring (Ashton Road and vicinity).
	2 American Kestrels
	15 American Crows
	1 Northern Harrier
	1 Savannah Sparrow
	2 Common Grackles
Blairs Valley Lake
	2 American Tree Sparrows
	1 Black-capped Chickadee
	1 Tufted Titmouse
	3 Northern Cardinals
	3 White-throated Sparrows
	2 Cedar Waxwings
	2 Slate-colored Juncos		
        2 Mallards
        1 Red-tailed Hawk (back on the freeway)

Saturday at the Sea Breeze Restaurant (Luther Goldman and myself).
	3 Horned Grebes
	15 Tundra Swans
	20 Canvasbacks
	10 Oldsquaw
	10 Common Goldeneye
	20 Bufflehead
	2 Red-breasted Mergansers
	30 Ruddy Ducks
	2 Turkey Vultures
	1 Osprey
	15 Ring-billed Gulls
	6 Herring Gulls
	4 Great-black backed Gulls
	1 Carolina Chickadee
	2 Fish Crows
	2 Song Sparrows
	NO KELP GULL
At Point Lookout we picked up a few ...
	5 Common Loons
	30 Surf Scoters
	2 Black Vultures
	2 more Osprey
	1 Northern Harrier (at COrnfield Harbor Road).
	2 American Kestrels
	5 Bonapartes Gulls
	12 Killdeer
	2 Horned Larks
	4 Brown-headed Nuthatches
	5 Eastern Bluebirds
	2 Swamp Sparrows
	20 Myrtle Warblers
	10 Juncos
	8 Grackles
Back at my girlfriends bird feeder in Frostburg, MD
	1 Fox Sparrow
	8 juncos
	5 House Finches
			                                                       
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