Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:40:27 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elise Kreiss Subject: Baltimore House-hunting House Wren! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Early this afternoon I hear the familar and long absent sound of a house wren who was perched above the nesting box on my back porch in Baltimore City. He took the time to pop inside before taking off. Other news: Our male red-bellied has learned a new trick. A long time visitor to our suet feeder; he had also learned to land squarely in the middle of the small hanging feeder that barely accommodates him, taking a peanut, and flying directly off. Yesterday, however, he clung to the edge of the swaying feeder, his stiff tail pressing against thin air, and ate quite a substantial amount before he flew to the next feeder and performed the same trick. THEN, he landed by the ground feeder, walked around it, sticking his long beak in various depressions under the feeder, presumably looking for insects. He's never done more than made a brief visit and taken off before. Recent visitors: red breasted nuthatch (Thursday evening); towhees (male and female) and a black and white warber(s): last weekend. Baltimore City (near Leakin Park) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================