Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:18:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: sightings on 11/9 Comments: cc: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed There must have been a heck of a Fox Sparrow migration on Thursday night. (Or maybe Bonnie Ott chased them out of a field in Howard County!) At Rachel Carson Conservation Park, Montgomery County, MD, this morning, I had 26 FOX SPARROWS (and those were just the ones I saw -- there were Fox Sparrow chips in almost every bramble and shrub). At one point I had 5 birds in the binocular view at the same time. Other birds of note at Rachel Carson were: 1 very tame HERMIT THRUSH (came within 6 ft. when I whistled crude imitation of Hermit song) 1 juv. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER 1 BROWN CREEPER 2 SWAMP SPARROWS and enormous numbers of SONG and WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS. Also this morning, at the north end of Lake Needwood in Rockville there were: 4 PIED-BILLED GREBE 4 GADWALL 4 RUDDY DUCK 9 RING-NECKED DUCK and 4 HOODED MERGANSERS (females) Mike Bowen Bethesda MD P.S. For those who don't know where Rachel Carson Conservation Park is, get yourselves a copy of the new "A Birder's Guide to Montgomery County, Maryland" which is just of the presses. Available at the ANS bookstore in Chevy Chase or by mail from Howard Lefkowitz (e-mail address wa3vez@home.com or call Howard at 301-649-3373). Price $16.00 plus $3.00 p&h. There is a quantity order price for 5 or more copies; fully paid-up members of the Montgomery County Chapter of MOS ask for special MC Chapter member price. D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================