Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:48:10 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Sightings for Montgomery County; May 5 and May 6 Comments: cc: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Saturday, May 5, Tucker Lane, Ashton,MD: The only new birds of note were Eastern Wood-Pewee, Acadian Flycatcher and a beautiful singing male Kentucky Warbler. Right near the Kentucky Warbler were a pair of Hooded Warblers (m&f). Sunday, May 6, Triadelphia Lake Rd. Sunshine MD: Birded from 7 AM until 11:30 AM with a nice variety of birds, including 10 warbler species (low numbers), 6 raptors, 7 sparrow species. Highlights were gobbling Wild Turkey from 7-8:30 AM, calling N. Bobwhite, many male BOBOLINKS in the upper fields on the south side of the road, E. Meadowlark, Savannah Sparrows, a small flock of 7 Common Loons which appeared to be circling and rising in a thermal (I have never before seen them do this!), an immature Bald Eagle being harassed by a smaller raptor (possibly a kestrel), a rather late, lone Broad-winged Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Osprey, Red-shouldered and Red-tailed hawks, nest-building Wood Thrushes (close to the road), all 3 Mimidae, and warblers including Blue-winged, N.Parula, Prairie, Black & White, American Redstarts, Worm-eating singing, many Ovenbirds, a male Kentucky, C. Yellowthroat and a singing Yellow-breasted Chat. A beautiful morning to be out... Rick Sussman Ashton, Montgomery County, MD warblerick@aol.com 301-221-6868 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================