Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:56:45 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Brown Pelicans galore! Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed To add to the recent Brown Pelican sightings: On Saturday, 7/7, I saw three Brown Pelicans in the bay both in Calvert and St. Mary's County waters from Hog Point, Patuxent Naval Air Station. I was biking at the air station and only had binoculars. Today (7/13) I returned there with my scope and saw many more pelicans in the water and on the pound nets located between Drum Point and Solomons in Calvert County. I drove back to Calvert County and from the beach at Chesapeake Ranch Estates I counted at least 26 Brown Pelicans. With my camera and my scope, I took a photo from afar: http://www.nestbox.com/temp.htm. It's great to see all of these birds in Calvert County! One other note, there was a successful nesting of Baltimore Orioles in Calvert County this year. A nest was found at the Mellomar Golf Park on Scaggs Road in Lower Marlboro. I got a series of videos including the day the young fledged (6/29). The nest was in a cherry tree about 20 feet off the ground. In an incredibly small Bradford Pear about 100 feet from the Baltimore Oriole nest is a nesting pair of Orchard Orioles. The nest is barely five feet off the ground in a tree that only stands about seven feet tall and has about a dozen or fewer branches. The nest is right next to a sand trap on the course. It remains to be seen if it will be successful. //////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================