Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:28:53 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Flag Ponds, 4/17 Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Flag Ponds Park, Calvert County, MD 4/17/01 Highlights from a cool but sunny morning walk through the park: Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Bufflehead - 22 Bald Eagle - 1 Sanderling - 15 Bonaparte's Gulls - 8 (some in breeding plumage) Caspian Tern - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 2 White-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Brown Thrasher - 1 House Wren - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 13 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 18 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Northern Parula - 9 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 42 Yellow-throated Warbler - 15 Pine Warbler - 8 Palm Warbler - 1 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Hooded Warbler - 1 Total Species: 49 On the homefront, here in Dunkirk, I found a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak at my feeder on 4/17 in the afternoon. A nest full of Carolina Wren babies is getting ready to fledge. //////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================