Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:20:20 -0400 Reply-To: bott@erols.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co highlights MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This evening the Howard chapter held its first evening walk of the summer. We had a nice turnout despite the heat with 18 folks showing up. We were blessed with a wonderful viewing of the BARRED OWL family. Two adult birds and two downy young. The parents were very unconcerned with the audience below them. The chicks were curious and watched us as they spent their time hopping around the branches and preening. They were able to fly short distances and occasionally made high pitched whining/hissing noises. We spent most of the "walk" watching the owl family. We also had a glorious male BALTIMORE ORIOLE out in full view gleaning the leaves for insects. Bonnie Ott ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================