Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 17:13:36 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Pete Webb Subject: Milford Mill Park sunday and yard this am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Milford Mill Park sunday and yard this am Sunday Milford Mill: Nothing stunning, but for Baltimore County perhaps an arrival or two, and a very pleasant 1 1/2 hour walk. 48 species, 10 warbler species Highlights: Blue-headed Vireo, lots of Gray Catbirds, Blue-winged Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, American Redstart Northern Waterthrush, Scarlet Tanager 2 "Gorgeous George" Rose-breasted Grosbeaks female Orchard Oriole, Purple Finches 1 Great Blue Heron 3 Canada Goose 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo (my first; look too brief to ID race, didn't see back color) 3 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 3 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 13 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 12 Gray Catbird (my first was friday) 3 European Starling 2 Blue-winged Warbler ** (Balt. County arrival?) 6 Northern Parula 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler ** (Balt. County arrival?) 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler ** (Balt. County arrival?) 20 Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Black-and-white Warbler 1 American Redstart ** (Balt. County arrival?) 2 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush ** (Balt. County arrival?) 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Scarlet Tanager 3 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 11 White-throated Sparrow 12 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Orchard Oriole, female ** (Balt. County arrival?) 5 Purple Finch 1 House Finch (flyover) 8 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow (houses across stream) 48 species, 10 warbler species Weather: Sunny, 45-50 F 3 Observers: Pete Webb, Bob and Anne Courtemanche At the Webb home, Tuesday morning (May 2) brought a fallout of birds with a singing Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, and 5 yard arrival warblers: Yellow, Black-throated Blue, Ovenbird, Parula, and Black-and-White. Other birds included a flyover group of four vocal Eastern Kingbirds, Catbird, Blackburnian Black-throated Green and Myrtle ("Yellow-rumped") warblers, and a brief appearance of the lone Yellow-crowned Night-heron at last year's nest over the neighbor's mailbox, significant in that I hadn't seen the bird since last Saturday. Also, a Spotted Sandpiper flew overhead, a repeat from the night before. The best place for YCNH's around Baltimore is probably the Johns Hopkins University campus near the Space Telescope building, where three pairs are reported nesting and are being monitored. Pete Webb Baltimore, MD (USA) pwebb@bcpl.net (home, after 6) pew@niroinc.com (work, M-F 830-5) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================