Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 08:10:29 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Baltimore City 4/4-4/7 Comments: To: pew@niroinc.com, SJenni9538@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone Yet another great week downtown. Friday on Rash Field I watched as a Swamp Sparrow attempted to take a worm from a Robin. Three times the Swamp Sparrow jumped at the worm; but the Robin did seem too concerned. When a Brown Thrasher came to investigate the Robin picked up his booty and ran off. It was quite a drama. Federal Hill 4/4 American Kestrel 1m; Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker 2m; Merlin 1f (eating a Song Sparrow) 4/5 Merlin 1f (eating a House Sparrow); Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker 1m,1f 4/7 *Common Snipe 1; *Eastern Towhee 1m; *Ruby-Crowned Kinglet 1; Rough-Winged Swallow 1 Rash Field 4/4 *Swamp Sparrow 1; *Barn Swallow 2; Field Sparrow 4/5 *Brown Thrasher 1; Swamp Sparrow 4/7 Brown Thrasher 1; Swamp Sparrow; Barn Swallows Harborplace 4/7 *Caspian Tern 1; *Bald Eagle 1 Voshell Memorial Gardens - Dundalk 4/6 *Blue Jay 4; Brown Thrasher 1; Field Sparrow 1; Swamp Sparrow 1; Peace to you all Keith Eric Costley Randallstown, Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================