Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:10:05 -0400 Reply-To: Robert Ringler Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: 6 Dickcissels and a Shrike MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gail, For Grasshopper and Vesper Sparrow together try Carroll County, Sixes Bridge Road just east of Keysville Road, about a mile north of Detour. Horned Lark and Savannah Sparrow have also been here. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Gail Mackiernan To: Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] 6 Dickcissels and a Shrike > Hi all -- > > Barry and I went out looking for birds for a visiting ornithologist (more > on this later) and scouted the Lilypons area -- we were able to finally see the > loggerhead shrike, distant views, in the usual spot south of Lilypons Rd. > along the fenceline to the right of the clumpy trees. > > We also went along Cap Stine Road and saw or heard six Dickcissels from > about the 4500 to 4300 blocks, several gave excellent views on the roadside > wires. Heard a Willow FC at about the 4800 block. Lots of Brown Thrashers > about. Had a Cooper's Hawk take a Redwing along Lilypons Rd., near the > shrike spot, creating a huge commotion amongst all the Starlings and > Blackbirds. > > However, we dipped on Grasshopper Sparrows and Vesper Sparrow. Our visitor > is especially keen to see the latter -- any help would be greatly appreciated! > > I will be posting a "help please" list in another post, hopefully we can > catch up with some of these wanted species for our friend. > > Cheers, > Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================