Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:11:07 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Chino Farms bird movement Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, As some of you know, I've been working at Chino Farms, in QA county, for over a month now banding Grasshopper Sparrows. You may remember Ryan Lesh worked here 2 years ago. There were some interesting things I noticed today that I thought I should post. The first thing was an arrival of a singing male DICKCISSEL on Saturday. The bird was seen briefly today singing from atop a cedar tree. I've been informed that many farmers mow their fields on or just before 30 June. Perhaps this is a displaced bird from nearby. Let's hope he stays. Other people may want to be on the lookout others in the area. The cold front caused some bird movement today. This was first obvious while opening nets pre-dawn and 300+ swallows, mostly Barn, came flying over the fields from the East. Also today the first (presumed) migrant BANK SWALLOWS were around. About 25 for the day, and I'm not sure if there was turnover or not. Another interesting movement was 4 adult HERRING GULLS while west along the Chester River. Finally, there was an AMERICAN KESTREL hunting over the fields today, the first we've had this summer. FYI, we've banded about 73 new male, and 47 female, Grasshoppers this year with 33 returning males, and 10 females from last year, and 7 returning males from 1999. The highlight so far has been 14 returning males, and 3 females,that were banded as young last year to the fields. Unfortunately, this wonderful piece of property is not open to the public and I can not post directions. Matt Hafner Chestertown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================