Fort Smallwood, MD 3/16 - 3/21 1999
Sue Ricciardi (susie@idsonline.com)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:44:11 -0500
Fort Smallwood is located on the western shore of the
Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River,
about 11 miles south of Baltimore, MD. All numbers
are unofficial.
SEASON
3/16 3/17 3/18 3/19 3/20 3/21 TOTAL
BV 65 72
TV 73 330 263 34 169 1014
OS 1 1 4 7
BE 1
NH 1 1 4
SS 3 10 41 23 15 94
CH 2 22 8 1 22 60
RS 7 47 2 18 84
RT 13 63 3 5 100
AK 1 61 3 1 68
UNID 2 3
TOTAL 98 474 370 61 302 0 1507
A grand week with good weather and mostly favorable
winds, except for 3/21's rain. The 65 Black Vultures
that tried to speck by smashed the previous daily record
of 32 (1998), and the 61 Kestrels on 3/18 is a
great number this early in March. Amazingly, after
such a slow start, we're now ahead of last year's
pace by about 80 birds.
Sue Ricciardi, compiler
susie@idsonline.com