Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:45:36 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Columbia) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A report from Helen Zeichner of 75 Bonaparte's gulls spotted at = Wilde Lake at 2:00 this afternoon. A flock (possibly the same birds) was = also spotted this morning at Lake Kittimaquandi. Centennial Park hosted singing Hermit thrushes again. I have heard = more this spring than I have in the last 10 years! It was a good sparrow = day- FOX, SWAMP, SONG, FIELD and WHITE-THROATS. Swallows numbers are = coming up with 2 martins, 5 barns and tree. A flyover MERLIN was a nice = surprise. Ran into a friend who lives in Ellicott city that has a red-breasted = nuthatch coming daily to his feeder (has been there about a month). =20 Bonnie Ott Ellicott city,Howard County Field trip chair bott@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================