Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:50:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Purple Finch (9-8) and Birds this AM/PM at Home Comments: To: SMAS , voice Comments: cc: Jlstasz@aol.com, Marshall , Greg Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks Last evening about 5:20 PM a young Purple Finch showed up at one of the Sunflower Feeders. Photos were taken. Maybe this is the beginning of a great finch season. Red-breasted Nuthatches are around. What's next? The deck was a little more active today. A Great Horned Owl calling just after midnight was a good way to start the day. Birds this morning were: 1 Killdeer calling flying over 1 young male Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker ~ 100 (a steady stream) Chimney Swifts heading south Great Crested Flycatcher - calling Wood Peewee - singing 14 Blue Jay 3 American Crows 6 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebirds 1 Brown Thrasher 10 E. Starlings 2 Pine Warblers (the male was singing) 4 Scarlet Tanager 2 Grackles + a flock of 30 overhead - keep going! 10 House Finch 16 Goldfinch (Pine Siskin to follow?) New birds this afternoon: 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Turkey Vulture 12 Laughing Gulls 1 American Robin 1 Rufous-sided Towhee George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================