Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:51:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings, October 1 Comments: To: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Signs of the change of seasons today just downstream of Fletcher's Boathouse, DC, in the scrubby willows and sycamores growing among the rocks along the Potomac Shoreline: many SONG SPARROW 2 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW 2 SWAMP SPARROW 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW 1 WINTER WREN In the beaver ponds above Chain Bridge there were 26 WOOD DUCKS and a few MALLARDS. A PILEATED WOODPECKER was working on a sycamore branch right above the bridge walkway, and 3 BLACK VULTURES were perched directly above the traffic light at the DC end of the bridge. Still CHIMNEY SWIFTS overhead from time to time. Mike Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================