Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:00:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Yard Birds Including Whip-poor-will Comments: cc: Marshall , Jlstasz@aol.com, voice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks Todays birds around the property included Gwen and my first Whip-poor-wills of the season. Such a treat to have these animals live with us. Other birds today included: 1 Common Loon - flyers 6 Double-crested Cormorants - flyers 5 Great Blue Heron - flyers 3 Canada Geese - flyers 1 Turkey Vultures - flyers 3 Bald Eagles- flyers 4 Red-shouldered Hawk - flyers 2 Red-tailed Hawks - flyers 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk - flyer 3 Cooper's Hawk - flyer 8 Mourning Dove 5 Red-bellied Woodpeckers 2 Downy Woodpeckers 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flickers 1 Pileated Woodpecker being chased by a Cooper's Hawk 1 singing Phoebe 6 Bluejays 6 Common Crow 2 Tree Swallow 8 Carolina Chickadees 6 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatches 2 Carolina Wrens 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers- first for the year 2 Eastern Bluebird - female still attending the nest box in the from yard 2 American Robin 2 Brown Thrashers 12 European Starlings 12 Yellow-rumped Warbler - moving through 4 Pine Warblers - first for the year 1 male Eastern Towhee (the old Rufous-sided bird) 8 Chipping Sparrow - first for the year yard 10 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinals 20 Red-winged Blackbird male 35Common Grackles - mostly flying over 6 Brown-headed Cowbirds - 2 females 8 American Goldfinch 6 House Finch Good birding. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================