Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:17:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Blackpoll, Wilson's & WE Warblers; Balt. Oriole: Ho Co Highlights MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I birded around Howard Co. today, both before work and for about four hours after work. I picked up 12 species of warbler in the county with highlights at Lake Elkhorn being BLACKPOLL and WILSON'S WARBLERs and two BALTIMORE ORIOLEs singing across the lake from each other (one flew briefly over the lake); a WORM-EATING WARBLER at Hammond High School (front yard); and at Patapsco River Park (Henryton) were OVENBIRD, and SCARLET TANAGER. Highlights: Lake Elkhorn: HORNED GREBE -- still around; almost breeding plumage SPOTTED SANDPIPER--pond in back of lake SOLITARY SANDPIPER--pond in back of lake Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler BLACKPOLL WARBLER--south side of lake near 2nd bridge Common Yellowthroat WILSON'S WARBLER--north side of lake, about 200 feet prior to (west of) bridge at end of lake, along left (north) side of path. If you see a big bunch of reddish azaleas in a little opening in the background, you are close. BALTIMORE ORIOLE Hammond High School, Guilford Rd.: WOOD THRUSH--my first of the year! This is the latest I've ever gotten my first WoTh WORM-EATING WARBLER--rattling in a tree in front of the school Middle Patuxent Environmental Area: Indigo Bunting Patapsco River Park at Henryton Rd.: Wood Thrush N. Parula Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Black-and-white Warbler WORM-EATING WARBLER OVENBIRD La. Waterthrush SCARLET TANAGER I tallied 59 species for the day. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie blackrail@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================