Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:48:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Yardbirds for 10-7 and Late Eastern Wood Pewee on 10-6 Comments: To: SMAS , voice Comments: cc: Marshall , Jlstasz@aol.com, Greg Miller , Gwen Brewer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks I pretty busy Sunday morning from the deck at my house in Waldorf, MD. A few nice arrivals and some just passing by. The high light for the weekend was a single Eastern Wood Pewee calling about 7 PM on Saturday, Oct 6. A late migrant perhaps. The list for 10-7: 2 Turkey Vulture - midday 3 Black Vultures - midday 29 Canada Geese Immature Merlin - the bird perched in the large dead tree in the back, saw a American Crow near it and buzzed the crow, chasing it off. The Merlin did not return. #113 for the year at the house. 8 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1-3 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers - all sightings were males but it could have been the same bird seen three times. It called nicely one. Sapsuckers are not as good as Blue Jays for mimicking Red-shouldered Hawk. 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 13 Blue Jay - 9 were flying high, probably migrating. The 4 were feeding in the yard. 3 American Crows - one chased by a Merlin. 8 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Eastern Bluebirds 2 American Robin 1 Wood Thrush calling early 2 Swainson's Thrushes calling over head predawn 8 European Starlings 12 Cedar Waxwings - on the move 1 Blackpoll winter female 3 Grackles 12 Cardinals 1 Rufous-sided Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 10 House Finch 16 Goldfinch Regards. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================