Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:31:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert & Glennis Wasmer Subject: Re: Yellow-crowned Night Herons in Sligo Creek MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello MDOspreyers, Tony Futcher's comments reminded me that my wife and I also saw a Yellow-crowned Night Heron a week ago today while we were walking along the Longbranch Creek Hiker/Biker Trail here in Takoma Park. Longbranch Creek runs into Sligo Creek just before New Hampshire Avenue and is separated from Sligo Creek by the "ridge" on which Flower Avenue runs. Do you suppose these YCNH are the birds that nested this year along Sligo Creek near the playground and tennis courts just upstream from Piney Branch Avenue? I saw these same birds on the nest in May. This will most likely be my last posting to MDOsprey until August; I am unsubscribing tomorrow evening. I leave Friday morning for Washington State, where I will be teaching a marine invertebrates course at a marine biology field station south of Anacortes, WA near Deception Pass State Park. We will drive out and back with some brief birding stops along the way. I look forward to some good birding in the northern Puget Sound area, Olympic Peninsula ocean beaches, Dungeness Spit, San Juan Islands, and northern Cascades during field trips and when not teaching (the class meets M-W from June 20 to Aug. 10, so will have lots of time to bird, hike and ..... it's going to be really ROUGH, but someone has to do it!). Tony knows what I'm talking about, because he also has been to the same field station. Regards, Bob Wasmer Takoma Park rgwasmer@gateway.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony G. Futcher" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:18 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Yellow-crowned Night Herons in Sligo Creek > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================