Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:45:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: leslie fisher Organization: cecil bird club Subject: Cecil Report- Bethel/Courthouse Point MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All: 13 birders attended this trip on one of the hottest days of the season thus far. We endured the heat until 12:45 PM as we footed it around several impoundments to be rewarded with great looks at some neat species, 59 total. Highlights: At Bethel, target species COMMON MOORHEN were stars of the day, 2 pairs with 2 downy chicks each, in great view, plus another single adult at another nest site. There was much oohing and aahing!! ORCHARD ORIOLE perched and sang, flyover NORTHERN HARRIER was a nice addition and several fly bys of GREEN HERON. Courthouse Point was the heron place, with hoped for LITTLE BLUE HERON much in evidence, and at one point we had GREAT EGRET, LITTLE BLUE and GREAT BLUE in one scope view. Another hopeful, BLUE GROSBEAK sang and provided good looks, likewise GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. We did get singing YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT as another target species, but it would not show itself. Total list as follows: B= Bethel, CHP = Courthouse Point, B & C= both locations I am giving some estimated numbers of some species present, CAPITOLS denote species hoped for on the trip. Pied-billed Grebe- B ( 1 ) Great Blue Heron- B & C Great Egret- B & C- (6 ) LITTLE BLUE HERON- CHP- ( 6) Green Heron- B- ( 2 ) Black Vulture -CHP Turkey Vulture- B&C Wood Duck- B ( 2 ) Black Duck- B- ( 1 female, 5 young ) Mallard BLUE-WINGED TEAL- CHP-( 1 male ) Osprey- B & C Northern Harrier- B ( 1 female ) Sharp Shinned Hawk- B ( 1) Red-tailed Hawk-CHP (1) COMMON MOORHEN- B- ( 5 adults, 4 young ) American Coot- B& C Killdeer- CHP Mourning Dove- B&C Red-bellied Woodpecker- CHP Downy Woodpecker-CHP Northern Flicker-B Eastern Wood Peewee Great Crested Flycatcher- B&C Eastern Kingbird- B- ( 2 ) White-eyed Vireo- B&C Red-eyed Vireo- CHP ( 1) Blue Jay- B&C American Crow- B&C Fish Crow- CHP Purple Martin- B Tree Swallow- B&C Barn Swallow- B&C Black-capped Chickadee- B&C Tufted Titmouse- CHP Wood Thrush- B&C American Robin- B&C Gray Catbird- B&C Northern Mockingbird- B Brown Thrasher- B&C European Starling Cedar Waxwing- B&C Ovenbird- CHP- (1) Common-yellowthroat- B&C YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT- ( 1 ) Eastern Towhee- B&C Chipping Sparrow- B Field Sparrow- B & C Song Sparrow- B& C Northern Cardinal- B&C BLUE GROSBEAK- B &C ( 4 total ) Indigo Bunting- B&C Red-winged Blackbird- B&C Eastern Meadowlark- B Common Grackle- B&C Brown-headed Cowbird-B Orchard Oriole- B ( 1 adult male, 1 first year male ) House Finch- CHP-1 American Goldfinch- B&C Leslie Fisher Cecil Co. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================