I was waterfront in Shady Side (Anne Arundel Co) this weekend waiting to catch the young ospreys first flight when I heard unrecognized squawking, followed by two slender medium-sized birds doing a good job of mobbing the 2 adult osprey. I did not get a good look at that time. Shortly after, 3 young osprey of the closest platform to the house took to the sky for their first flight.
Between 5:15 & 5:45 PM the squawkers showed up at the feeder and turned out to be two Nanday Conures/Black-Hooded Parakeets. Both individuals had bands and are assumed to be someones escaped pets.
Here is a picture of one of them. http://www.flickr.com/photos/81608452@N02/7475863826/in/photostream
Dovid Kozlovsky
Cockeysville, MD
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