Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:18:22 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Anthony G. Futcher" Subject: Yellow-crowned Night Herons in Sligo Creek MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since there always seems to be interest in Yellow-crowned Night Herons, I want to report that one was seen along Sligo Creek between New Hampshire Avenue and East-west Highway (Rte 410.) My wife and I have seen them in previous years, and while walking the hiker-biker path on Saturday 6/3, Mary wondered if they would be back. I said that I doubted they would be around until after the breeding season, when the post-season wandering started, and having said that, Mary said "Well what is that?" Of course to prove me a liar, there was a YCNH which flew up into a low branch over the creek, and sat there for the next 15 minutes!. The specific area is in the wooded section about half way between the overhead power lines and the second bridge from New Hampshire Ave. ( or the first one from East-west Hwy.) Tony Futcher W. Hyattsville, MD tfutcher@cuc.edu -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony G. (Tony) Futcher, Ph.D. e-mail: tfutcher@cuc.edu Director of Records, Columbia Union College fax : 301-891-4121 Takoma Park, MD 20912 office : 301-891-4119 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================