Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:22:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: DAVID FARNER Subject: Black Hill R. P. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Rick, Joe, Denise; Sorry I didn't respond to your emails earlier. Denise, thanks for posting the information about the crossing at Ten Mile Creek, and now I'll where to look for the Hairy W.P. next time. I led a waterfowl walk there on Saturday and we found pretty much the same assortment of waterfowl as I had on Thursday, but in smaller numbers. We did see two Red Headed Woodpeckers. Also as we headed fom parking lot #9 to the RHWPs we saw an albino songbird just inside the woods. It was completely white. I didn't get a great look at it as I tried to get all of the people on the walk to see it. A dog on the Black Hill Trail caused the bird to fly away and we could not relocate it. My quick impression was that of a bird such as Junco, but was not a canary or other escaped pet. The other highlight was a Fox Sparrow just past Ten Mile Creek about 30 feet up in a tree with Cedar Waxwings, I don't recall looking up very often to find Fox Sparrows! I would like to thank and compliment the Montgomery County Bird Club for getting the site guide out shortly after I started working at ANS! It has been a tremendous help. Montgomery county was an area that I hadn't birded very much in the last couple of years. I have been trying to get to as many spots as possible since I started here and the guide has been a big help. David Farner Audubon Naturalist Society ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================