Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:10:51 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Baltimore & Carroll County Birding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A satisfying day of birding with friends. Highlights....... Dan & Georgia McDonald, Dot Gustafson & myself began today's birding at the IHop parking lot in Baltimore County's Owings Mills Mall. A few of the bird species we saw at the Mall's wetland & what's left of the area that hasn't been developed yet: Great Blue Heron three juvenile and 2 adult Green Heron Killdeer Blue Grosbeak Rough-winged swallows Bluebirds Brown Thrasher Chat Common Yellow-throats Yellow warblers Field Sparrows Indigo Bunting Baltimore Orioles Glen Falls: Acadian Flycatcher sounding pitsa and its breeding territory song which Geo describes as a "flicker-like ti-ti-ti-ti... " White-eyed Vireo straight up singing AND with a short Wood Thrush like variation - anybody heard that? On to Old Hanover Rd to find: two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS Fringer Rd: scoped a Horned Lark taking a dust bath (A woman stopped to see what we were doing. She appreciated the great look she got of the Horned Lark. Went on to say that she had a feasting (Loggerhead?) Shrike with lifeless birdie bodies hanging over her barbed wire fence last Aug but didn't know to whom she should report - she knows now!) Grasshopper Sparrows and over that field appeared a BALD EAGLE being harassed by a Red-tail! Carroll County Cliff Swallow's (bridge-rt 91 ) colony has grown from 11 active nests last year to 30 this year. Liberty Lake's Murray Rd Scoped a singing Prairie Warbler During the day enjoyed seeing many Red Admirals, Great Spangled Fritillarys & unidentified dragonflies. Then home with smiling faces. Gail Frantz Reisterstown, MD guineabird@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================