HI all,
We went up to Brookside Gardens to see if anything had shown up after the frontal passage. In a word, it was pretty dull! There were a lot of Goldfinches and House Finches about (maybe 20 of the former and 15 of the latter) -- interestingly, feeding on the seeds (berries?) of crape myrtle in a sheltered part of the garden. The only somewhat unusual birds were a single Brown Creeper and several raptors -- a large (probably female) Cooper's and two soaring Redtails. However driving out along Randolph RD (going towards Colesville) we saw a RAVEN fly over being harrassed by two cawing Am. Crows. This is our second local Raven sighting in three days. We are not too far from where the ravens have been nesting at Rocky Gorge dam (near I-95) so maybe one of them or an offspring.
Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD
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