Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:12:55 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek today 9/12 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- As Paul O'Brien said, some sanity restored by going out to look at birds. It was an excellent morning at Rock Creek, almost a "classic" with birds dropping in out of the sky into the big walnut tree at the ridge, starting about 7:45 and continuing until about 8:45, when activity rapidly died down and we moved on to the nature center and maintenance yard to catch up with a few foraging birds. Warblers: Bay-breasted (5), Blackpoll (3), Black-and-white (4), Black-throated Green (10-12), Black-throated Blue (10), Chestnut-sided (5), Cape May (1), Magnolia (20), Nashville (6), Parula (6), Tennessee (1), Wilson's (1), Yellowthroat (12). (Another birder saw an Ovenbird as well). Other migrants: Red-eyed Vireo (15), White-eyed Vireo (1), Swainson's Thrush (1), Scarlet tanager (4), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (6), Eastern Wood-pewee (6), Acadian Flycatcher (1), House Wren (10), Indigo Bunting (3), Brown Thrasher (1), Ruby-throated Hummingbird (4), Sharp-shinned Hawk (2). Lots of Common Green Darners (dragonflies) as well. Thin on the ground this year, so far: Cuckoos of either species, Empidonax flycatchers, thrushes of any species save Wood (which breeds locally). Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================