Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 06:10:13 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Daniels) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Howard Bird Club held a Butterflies/Wildflowers through Binocs. = trip Saturday morning. We walked along the Patapsco river focusing on = the early spring wildflowers and the few chilly butterflies that braved = the cool breeze. The FALCATE ORANGE TIP was our butterfly highlight. = Dutchman's breeches were still found blooming along with a variety of = other flora identified by the group. Walking Fern and seen quite well = through Ralph Cullison's scope as it crept up the rocks.=20 The nesting WORM-EATING WARBLERS were singing on territory along = with a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER.=20 A side trip to the Camel's Den Cave was of interest to the group. = Disney had just filmed there for the upcoming movie Tuck Everlasting. = There was a PHOEBE nesting along the ledge of the cave and she put up = with our poking around quite well. I wondered later how she had dealt = with a film crew?=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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================