Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 17:16:50 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Benjamin Poscover Subject: Re: Cromwell Valley Park 5/5, etc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Don: I want to bird Dromwell Valley Park. Where do you walk to see these birds? Thanks, Ben Poscover Towson MD bposcove@bcpl.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Burggraf To: Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Cromwell Valley Park 5/5, etc. > I caught a couple of hours at Cromwell Valley this morning. > > Warblers were somewhere else, I guess. Only yellow, common yellowthroat, > northern parula, and (three!) chats. The Cromwell Valley specialties were > present: bobolink and blue grosbeak. Acadian Flycatcher was singing, as > well as both orioles. (I had at least 9 Baltimore Orioles!) A > yellow-billed cuckoo flew by. Warbling and white-eyed vireos sang > aggressively. > > My only black-throated blue warbler so far this Spring has been in the > little alley running behind the church where I serve. > > I was interested in Rick Blom's report of his Western trip. It came as no > surprise that, with an airplane and with such experienced birders, he would > have a huge list compared to the list I generated when I went out West last > week. Limited to southern California, I managed to pick up 25 life species > (yay), with a trip total of 185. I also had several "investment" birds - > two parakeets which have been established well enough that the ABA may > recognize them in the future, and a subspecies of fox sparrow that may get > split in the future. The most difficult bird to get was LeConte's trasher. > (They do know how to skulk and hide!) I got lucky several times (mountain > quail, white-headed woodpecker, pinyon Jay, white-tailed kite, a trip to > Santa Cruz Island with three pelagic species, not to mention sabine's gull, > etc.) My all-time highest priority target bird, vermillion flycatcher, flew > in for a wonderful look on the first day of my trip! On Saturday, I met a > man from LA and we had a "big day" of 116 species. No, I didn't do as well > as the airplane crew, but I'm a happy camper. > > Don Burggraf > Baltimore > ________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================