Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:53:22 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: October 10 Yardbirds - Waldorf, Charles Co. MD Comments: To: SMAS Comments: cc: Miliff@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks I worked around the house yesterday and had a few nice visitors. Turkey Vulture Three (3) Osprey - a yard high day count. Two small falcons - Merlin/Kestrel size. Never good enough looks to get = to species. Suspect Merlin. One Ring-billed Gull 20 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - immature. Would have made a nice photo had = it stayed. An attractive bird. 5 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker Several Blue Jay in the distance. Most of the local birds have moved = on. The winter crowd should be here shortly. American Crow - maybe 12 Carolina Chickadee - about 8 Tufted Titmouse- three White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Carolina Wren - one heard singing Swainson's Thrush - a very good look at this immature bird. European Starling - 20 flyovers. So far they have not ascended on the = peanut butter tree. Male Pine Warbler Immature Yellow-rumped Myrtle Warbler Northern Cardinal - about 12 House Finch - maybe six.=20 The backyard bird feeders are pretty weakly attended these days. Maybe = there is enough native food out now so they can feed else where, plus = some (Blue Jays) are migrating. The season is changing so expect to see = a new population arrive soon. When will my White-throated Sparrows and = Juncos arrive? Gwen and I had a Great Horned Owl calling on Tuesday. A first for the = year for the house. Good watching. George =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================