Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:49:50 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens 5/10 (and Huntley) Hi all -- Barry and I opted to go to KAG today and see what might have arrived -- got there at 7:00 on the dot and the gate was already open. We did all the ponds carefully as well as the Boardwalk and surroundings and unfortunately did not see any Bittern (not any rails, always a potential looking at the habitat). However, we did see (and hear) quite a nice lot of birds: Warblers: Northern Waterthrush (4), Prothonotary (4), Blackpoll (2), Yellow (2), Yellow-rumped (ca. 20), Redstart (1), Yellowthroat (6), Magnolia (1). Also heard what was probably a Tennessee doing a rather odd truncated song but could not locate to be sure. Most of the warblers were along the River Trail or the Boardwalk. We also had: Red-eyed Vireo (12), White-eyed Vireo (4), Warbling (1), Orchard Oriole (1), Baltimore Oriole (5), Scarlet Tanager (1), Blue Grosbeak (1), Eastern Kingbird (2), Phoebe (2), Wood Duck (2, high in a tree). Didn't see any shorebirds, tide coming in quickly. Met Mike Bowen and Linda Friedland and they had had Bobolinks at Kenilworth Park next door but these were no where to be found when we went to look. We then went to Huntley Meadows to look for the recently-returned Mississippi Kites and saw one very distant, over the dead snag in back, appeared to be displaying -- jinking about, did a little hover and then swooped down, not very satisfactory though. This was at about 10:30 am. Some folks had written in the sightings book that they had a kite yesterday at 3:30 pm. Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================