Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:40:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Hans Holbrook Subject: Middle Patuxent E.A. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There was lots of activity at the environmental area. Mammals were about= too, chipmunk, groundhog, and two raccoons. One of which was in heat I t= hink. She came up the trail and stopped ten feet from me and started mak= ing several odd sounds. I just stood there in disbelief. Then she start= ed walking towards and said "no" and swung my arm as if to say "away". S= he stopped and started at me again, then the male showed up about then, a= nd I said "hey, get away!". they went the other way down the trail. I wa= tched and followed them around through the woods for 20 minutes, they see= med unconcerned that I was there. The male just had one thing on his min= d and she just wanted to get away. Any way on to the birds, Field Sparrows Fox Sparrow 5 LINCOLN'S SPARROW 1 (it was singing!) Towhee 6 (all males) Brown Creeper 1 Hermit Thrush 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER (its head is more than half red now) woodpeckers-the other six species were all seen within fifty yards of the= red-head and often times there were several species in the same view, su= ch as pileated and sapsucker =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================