Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:19:32 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Flag Ponds, Calvert County 4/28 Comments: To: MD-SMAS-GENERAL@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Lots and lots of birds to see at Flag Ponds today (4/28). It seems like there was some movement last night judging from the increase in numbers. 70 species total. Highlights: Green Heron - 4 American Coot - 1 Common Moorhen - 3 Sharp-shinned Hawks (overhead) - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Double-crested Cormorants - 28 Chimney Swift - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Great-crested Flycatcher - 4 White-eyed Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - 14 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Gray Catbird - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 17 (watched a pair building a nest) Tree Swallow - 13 Barn Swallow - 10 Northern Rough-wing Swallow - 12 Northern Parula - 14 Yellow-rumped - 12 Black-throated Green - 3 Yellow-throated - 14 Pine - 8 Prairie - 1 Palm - 4 (three Eastern, one Western) Black-and-White - 10 American Redstart - 4 Worm-eating - 2 Ovenbird - 2 Louisiana Waterthrush - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 6 Hooded - 1 big movement of White-throated Sparrows - 36 Seaside Sparrow - 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak -1 When I got home there was a beautiful male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at my sunflower feeder. ////// 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 =======================================================================