Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:38:21 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Meadowside Nature Center, Labor Day Monday Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I birded at Meadowside this morning, hoping for some sort of fallout from the combination full moon and cold front, but things were rather slow. I did hit a few good pockets of mixed species, finding 10 warblers in all, including 8 Magnolias, 3-4 Chestnut-sided, 2 Black & whites, 2 A. Redstarts, 1 Prairie, 1 Common Yellowthroat, 1 N. Parula, 3-4 Canada, 2 Tennessee, and 1 nice male Black-throated Blue. Other finds included Baltimore Oriole, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Common Nighthawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Wood Thrush, E. Wood-pewee and many empids. And a single, chipping female Indigo Bunting. I had 50 species in about 4 hours, a bit dull considering the weather front, etc. I have noticed that they are cutting many of the meadow ares at Meadowside, which previously had been mostly wildflowers and mixed grasses. Does anyone know why? Whole new areas are being opened up that were for years not traditionally mowed. It's rather puzzling. Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com 301-221-6868 (Tues AM) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================