Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:00:53 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dan Eberly Subject: Weekend MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Gail and Berry (and others) for posting information about the Little Gulls at Back River. Friday morning I was able to get a nice view from the restaurant vantage point of an adult summer LITTLE GULL flying back and forth over the river. Thanks to the Bowens for initially spotting it. I probably spent about an hour watching it fly around. After viewing the gull, I explored the pine woods at the entrance (before the guard station) to the treatment plant. A security guard on a bike came over to me and nicely asked me to sign in at the administrative building. I didn't move very fast as I was trying to find the singing PALM and PINE Warblers -- so he came back again and asked me to sign in. Which I did. Saturday morning Seneca had a large number of Myrtle Warblers and 3 YELLOW PALM Warblers but I didn't hear or see any other "arriving" migrants. Next I checked, as I do every year, a place on the hiker/biker trail in Black Hill Park (Montgomery County) for blooming Trailing Arbutus (a flower). Unhappily, the Trailing Arbutus were not quite in bloom, but happily the Trailing Arbutus are near my viewing point for the RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS - which totaled 4 adults. As I watched them for about an hour, two appeared to be doing some spring cleaning of possible nest holes. Also along the path, I had a very close view of a male YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER - for a change it flew to a tree NEXT to where I was standing. I begin this path at the intersection of Waters Landing Dr. and Neerwinder Street in Germantown. The path soon forks - take the right fork- and in about 5 to 10 minutes you reach a place where, across the water, you will see a group of standing dead trees. The Woodpeckers were in the dead trees. There is also a man-hole cover(ing) by the path at that spot. Happy birding, Dan Eberly Bethesda ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================