Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:40:42 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Leon Wilde Subject: Re: Probable Connecticut Warbler near Anne Arundel CC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/17/00 4:49:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LeighTern@AOL.COM writes: << Hi, What is the location for this bird???? Thanks, W. >> If you're heading south on College Parkway in Arnold, after passing the community college to the right, go through the light at College Manor and then take the next right onto Raintree Dr into the Raintree housing development. Once on Raintree Dr take an immediate right onto Waycross and come down until just past Freehaven on your right. Past Freehaven on the right are a couple of houses and then a small wooded area---the wooded area (marking the area surrounding a small creek) also continues on the other side of the road (the creek runs through pipes under the road). Between the wooded area on the right and the next house is a cleared common area by the creek. I saw the bird yesterday just off the road to the right in the undergrowth---there are quite a few pokeweed bushes, although the bird was hopping around in the other low lying bushes right by the clearing. When I think I saw it last Thursday it was in a brushy area down by the creek off the cleared common area, behind a white house. While this is a common area, it can feel sort of awkward since you are looking up into the back of someone's house, so some degree of discretion would be appropriate. I was at work all day so I didn't get a chance to look for it until after 6PM, and by then there was no activity whatsoever. I hope the colder weather today didn't cause it to start heading south again. Also please note that I said "probable"---at this stage of my life I'm mostly a backyard birder, so I don't offer 100% guarantees on my uncommon warbler ID skills. Leon Wilde Arnold MD (H) 410-315-7945 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================