Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:33:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elise Kreiss Subject: Papermill Flats Sunday & Purple Finch at Balto. Feeder MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Paul and I took a two hour walk around Papermill Flats Sunday morning. We found a Great Blue Heron, about 18 Gadwall and 60 Canada Geese in the water, with a single Bufflehead. The area was lovely, as always, but very wet. High boots were a help, and the paths down to the water were bramble-covered. Winter Wren were a highlight of the walk. In the fields, we heard snatches of song, and had lengthy, good looks at what might have been 3 different birds. There were a great many White-throated Sparrows and Song Sparrows; we found only a single Swamp Sparrow and a handful of Juncos. Plenty of activity. We were particularly pleased with two Brown Creepers and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet with its crown well-exposed. We also heard a bit of R-c Kinglet song. Finding a dead, banded pigeon on the bridge resulted in my finding out more than I really to know about pigeon bands. Had a single female Purple Finch at our Baltimore feeder on Saturday. Papermill Flats Sunday List Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Canada Goose Gadwall Bufflehead Red-tailed Hawk Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden Crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Northern Mockingbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal American Goldfinch Elise Kreiss Windsor Hills (near Leakin Park) Baltimore City ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================