Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:50:52 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dick Homan Subject: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pennyfield, Montgomery County, 8-31-01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A very cooperative OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER spent much of the morning preening itself on a dead twig at the top of a tree on the opposite bank of the C&O Canal, above Pennyfield lock, about halfway between the 20 and 21 mile markers. I watched it for several minutes around 8:30 a.m. and later around 10 a.m. on my return. White tufts were quite prominent on either side of the rump, especially when it raised its wings to preen. Total sightings: Double-crested Cormorant (1, swimming and diving in the canal!) Canada Goose - 14 Wood Duck - 18 Great Blue Heron - 3 Green Heron - 1 Turkey Vulture - 2 Osprey - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Mourning Dove - 13 Yellow-billed cuckoo - 4 Chimney Swift - 20 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 6 Northern Flicker - 3 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER - 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 9 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 4 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 20 plus Fish Crow - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Gray Catbird - 2 White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 Carolina Wren - 14 Carolina Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 4 American Goldfinch - 6 BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER - 1 American Redstart - 1 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER - 3 (apparent family group at point) Common Yellowthroat - 2 Northern Cardinal - 10 Baltimore Oriole - 1 Dick Homan Bethesda, MD HomanRL@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================