Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:25:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Cerulean Warblers (5-03) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 4 May 2000 Took one of my Cerulean Warbler surveys yesterday. Went along the towpath from Sycamore Landing to the east end of Sharp-shinned Island-good day. Found and saw 8 singing males and heard another 3 which may have been ones I had seen earlier, but I'm inclined toward thinking at least two of them were different. Last year along this stretch I had 5 territories;four had singing males this time. Most of the birds were in box elders that had fully leafed out. Their other favorite trees-sycamores and black walnuts are pretty bare now. This is a good time of year to see ceruleans because the foilage isn't dense yet and they are singing constantly. Also for warblers they are relatively slow moving. There are 2-3 territories between Sycamore Landing and Horsepen Branch to the east. One is about 75 yards to the east of milepost 27 and another one is west of the stream flowing into the Potomac. They are easily heard from the towpath, but be forwarned that Northern Parulas have a similar song. Other birds of interest that I recorded were an adult Bald Eagle chasing on Osprey, one Common Loon, 3 Scarlet Tanagers, 12 Wood Thrushes, 5 Great Crested Flycatchers, 3 Acadian Flycatchers, 1 Northern Waterthrush, 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird, and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Paul Woodward Fairfax City, VA grackling@worldnet.att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================