Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:52:54 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Shirley Geddes Subject: Re: Green-tailed Towhee !!! in Allegany Co. Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Has anyone suggested putting bird seed where the Green-tailed Towhee might return. I'll bet there will be a lot of people very willing to help. Is this fesible?? ---------- >From: Ray Kiddy >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Green-tailed Towhee !!! in Allegany Co. >Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2000, 4:55 PM > >Hi MD, > >Around 11:00 this morning (1/1/01), I found what I believe to be an >adult Green-tailed Towhee along the roadway just beyond the sewage ponds >(the former Rouge Lagoon) at North Branch, Allegany Co., MD (DeLorme 67 >C6). The solid rufous cap, green wings & tail and white throat patch >bordered by black were well seen. The bird foraged actively along the >roadway with a sizable mixed sparrow flock which included White-crowned, >Tree, Song and White-throated Sparrows as well as Juncos. At one point, >it foraged just in front of 2 immature White-crowns affording a good >size comparison. The Towhee was very similar in size, perhaps slightly >larger. It scratched actively at the ground like a Song Sparrow and >held its tail erect. I observed the bird with both binoculars and scope >for about 15 minutes total. I contacted several local birders, two of >whom arrived and saw it briefly behind some vegetation before it and all >the others birds flushed when a Cooper's dove into a nearby bush. >Subsequent efforts to locate the bird were unsuccessful. However, there >is plenty of suitable habitat and the area is being used by many >sparrows with which it was freely associating. It seems reasonable that >it would stick around. > >I will send details to the Records Committee once transcribed from my >tape recorded notes. > >Directions: From I-68, take exit 43B in Cumberland onto Rt. 51, >Industrial Blvd. Follow 51 south about 5 1/2 miles. Turn right onto >PPG Rd. Turn left onto River Rd. after 1/4 - 1/2 mile. Follow this >until you come to the ponds which will be on your left. The bird was >seen mostly on the roadway just beyond the ponds with the farm pasture >on your left and the C&O Canal on your right. > >Happy trails .... >Ray Kiddy >Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD >rrkiddy@hereintown.net >http://www.hereintown.net/~rrkiddy/Kiddy.htm > >======================================================================= >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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================