Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:03:49 PDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sue hamilton Subject: Sunday April 30 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed After a nice morning's birding, with no new species, I drove out to Weems' (Town and Country Liquor) in Port Republic, to get my Sunday paper, and to check on their colonies of purple martins (right by the drive thru). There are only about 4 martins so far, and Bobby Weems is wondering where they all are? However, as I drove around the drivethru, on top of a holly tree just beyond the martin houses, sat a beautiful male Orchard Oriole, singing away. I drove within 3 feet of him. There must have been a catbird migration last night; there are 3 in my small yard. Prairie Warblers are in the small pines by the powerline right-of-way again. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================