Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:33:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Deck Birds this AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks Unwinding from a couple a crazy weeks of protecting the environment, I sat on the deck with a cup of coffee today. The following birds were heard or seen between 7 and 8:20 AM. Five Great Blue Heron - flying and calling. Canada Geese (nesting down the road-?) 10 Mourning Doves Singing Yellow-billed Cuckoo - is this really a song; cluck, cluck, .... Ten Chimney Swifts Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird sucking up the nectar and literally on the deck. Buenos dias senor Colubris. Several Red-bellied Woodpeckers Downy Woodpeckers (5) Hairy Woodpecker (one calling bird) Northern Flicker (1) Great-crested Flycatcher - I suckered the bird in for a good view with a little mimicking. Red-eyed Vireo - Where is the Visine when they need it? 12 Blue Jays 3 American Crows - calling after I mimicked GHOW Fish Crows - maybe they will nest again here. Three Purple Martins Barn Swallows (2) Carolina Chickadee (2) Tufted Titmouse (5) White-breasted Nuthatch (2) Carolina Wren (singing in the distance) Eastern Bluebird - male singing and purched up nicely. Wood Thrush - doing their most beautiful song. American Robin (6) Brown Thrasher European Starlings ? Yellow-rumped Warblers (singing - 8 or so) Ovenbird - close to the house Maybe a distant Hooded Warbler. Too much road noise for this one time song but it caught my aging ears. Not counted yet. Several Scarlet Tanagers (No Summer yet) Northern Cardinal Common Grackles (20) House Finch with young (8) American Goldfinch (6) Looks like White-throats and Juncos have moved along. The Whips are still on the steroids pre-dawn. How's a body to sleep? Good Birding George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================