On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:32:58 AM UTC-4, Keith Eric Costley wrote:
> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hoping to find a Blue-winged Warbler, I walked in the open fields at Mears Farm Park this morning. I enjoyed seeing/hearing nine Blue Grosbeak (including one young fledgling), seven Indigo Buntings and a family of Baltimore Oriole. Prairie Warblers were feeding young in several locations and two Yellow-breasted Chats were singing. No Blue-winged Warblers today.
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> Mears Farm Park appears to part of Patapsco Valley State Park near Foxhall Farm Road (a private road) and Rolling Road in Catonsville. We permission granted, I usually park at Saint Johns United Church of Christ and walk down Foxhall to the gate.
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> A video: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/71571556@N04/7466825804/in/photostream/" target="_blank">www.flickr.com/photos/<WBR>71571556@N04/7466825804/in/<WBR>photostream/</a>
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> The eBird list: <a href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11065887" target="_blank">http://ebird.org/ebird/view/<WBR>checklist?subID=S11065887</a>
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> Keith Eric Costley
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> Randallstown, Baltimore County
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Keith,
Your post brought back memories of birding in that area when I lived in Baltimore. I remember finding Blue-winged Warbler in either Foxhall Farm or the St Gabriel Retreat Center grounds.
Jim Wilkinson
Columbia, MD
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