Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:42:07 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Charlie Subject: LOSH nest on Lily Pons Road? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi folks, I hope that Phil and Bob are listening, as I don't know how important this is... While leading an MOS trip to Oland road and Lily Pons today, 5/21, we found at least one, possibly 2 Loggerhead Shrikes on Lily Pons Road. The bird(s) were on the south side of the road, perhaps 200 meters from route 85, in the same area where I (and presumably others) saw one over the winter. As one turns onto Lily Pons Road from route 85, the location is on the right side, and we viewed it from the relative high-point of the roadside. we never saw more than one bird, but there were at least 3 occasions when the group saw a bird flying one way out of sight, and suddenly it - or another was seen perched in the opposite direction. Several times we saw the bird(s) land on a small (2MX3M) man-made structure - possibly a well cap. From there, it or they would fly into the small clump of trees/shrubs to our left of the man-made structure. We beleive, but are uncertain, that these trips involved carrying material (food?) into the trees. We believe this because the trips generally followed what appeared to be periods of insect-hunting on the ground. Though we are uncertain that this indicates breeding, I post it here because it is worth checking out if anyone else happens to be in the area. It was a great trip! No Dickcissel, but we had a number (12?) of Grasshopper Sparrows, a Willow Flycatcher, lots of singing Meadowlarks, and displaying Horned Larks. Green Herons seemed to be everywhere at the nursery. Between that and paddling the North Branch yesterday, it's been a great birthday weekend! Good day! Charlie ===== **************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist Frostburg, Maryland, USA And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords - Alan Wilson Watts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================