Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:19:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Brown-headed Nuthatch in Calvert county Comments: To: MD-SMAS-GENERAL@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG In-Reply-To: <200002211606.LAA04359@codon.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Today (2/22) around 1:30 PM, I drove to the end of Lloyd Bowen Road in Calvert County in search of the Brown-headed Nuthatch. Thanks to the directions provided by both Tyler Bell and more recently, Harvey Mudd, I parked in the driveway of the yellow house at the very end of the road and walked a very short distance back up the street to the pines just past the small marsh. Two or three Carolina Chickadees and two Tufted Titmice appeared and then a Red-breasted Nuthatch. I heard and then saw a single Brown-headed Nuthatch about halfway up the tree. I was able to take a few photos but the bird didn't want to come out in the sun, so they will probably be marginal at best. The bird was fairly vocal but no other BHNUs were heard, so I'm assuming there was only one bird around. Thanks, Tyler for finding this bird -- a new one for my Calvert County list! Harvey, thanks for the great directions as to the recent location of the bird and for parking information. I then drove up to Huntingtown and went to Huntingtown WNRMA (Smokey Road), the site of one of my bluebird trails. While I was doing the first check of the season on the boxes (only one blasted by an irresponsible person with a shotgun this year -- guess I should be thankful), I heard and then saw several Horned Larks in the recently plowed fields. I also had two Bald Eagles, one Red-tailed Hawk, one Red-shouldered Hawk, the usual woodland and winter visitors but no bluebirds. ////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================