Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:49:44 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Veery and other birds at Cylburn Comments: cc: Joseph Lewandowski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I joined the bird-walk at Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore this morning, April 22. One of the most astounding aspects was that for the first 45 minutes all the human participants were males. Just as we were about to break out the beer and cigars, a young lady from California, in town for a job interview, showed up to pull us back into line. The birding was a little slow but she helped us appreciate what we had by getting 8 life-birds, including Wood Thrush and Veery. We went all the way to the bottom of the maintenance road, which had many of the best birds of the day. Some of the main species: * = lifers for our California visitor *Broad-winged Hawk - 5 *Solitary Sandpiper - 4 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Rough-winged Swallow - 5 House Wren - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers - Scads of them! *Wood Thrush - at least 3 *Veery - first of the season and maybe a comp-list first (1) Catbird - 3 *Blue-headed Vireo - 2 *Prairie Warbler - 2 Ovenbird - 1+ N Parula - 1 *Northern Waterthrush (buffy thin-tapering eye-line) - 1 Yellow Warbler - 2 engaging in a singing duel Yellowthroat - 1 Myrtle Warbler - 1 P.S. I just returned from a quick trip to N Utah and W Wyoming where I may have established a new N American record for failing to find Black Rosy-Finch ( = Devil Finch). I did at least get Chukar as a life-bird on Antelope Island (Great Salt Lake), which must be the Chukar capitol of the world, and had great opportunities to study California and Franklin's Gulls in great breeding plumage. Many of the Franklin's Gulls were strikingly pinkish. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD (Baltimore Co) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================