Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:15:17 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Re: Lower Eastern Shore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Joel, Nice trip to the E. Shore! Where did you find the Snow Buntings? They have been so scarce this winter. Back in Jan. I found five (or more) Lapland Longspurs along Ironshire Rd. south of Berlin, in Worcester Co. You probably aren't going back there, but this is the only place I've found the longspurs this year. And I had another atlas question for you: Are Summer Tanagers found anywhere in the vicinity of the state park? This is a bird I'd just like to find in that area. Stan -----Original Message----- From: Joel Martin To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:17 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Lower Eastern Shore Sedge Wrens, 2/19 >On Tuesday I took a day to hunt some target birds on the outer rim of the >lower shore, starting at dawn at Irish Grove and ending in Delaware. Found >the primary target bird, Sedge Wren, easily at Irish Grove -- up close and >personal looks at a pair on the Rail Trail. Thanks to Jim Stasz for the great >advice, again. Other highlights at Irish Grove/Rumbly Point were calling >Great Horned Owl, a Short-eared Owl at dawn, numerous Harriers, and >Brown-headed Nuthatch. > >At Taylor's Landing/EA Vaughn North, highlights were all 3 mimics, 2 >unidentified sharp-tailed sparrows, and one suspicious mouse-like Ammodramous >that was probably you-know-who. Most of the surrounding fields there are >mowed and didn't have the good sparrow flocks that were present last year. > >Late in the day I got great scope views of a flock of ~40 Snow Buntings. >These birds were almost completely in breeding plumage, with only a few >russet smudges on the head and breast. The males were very striking with >their black backs and white heads, the females in their gray-striped attire. > >Now I have to go back for the Eurasian Wigeons! Does anyone know if longspurs >are being seen at the Sparks Road site? > >Joel Martin >Catonsville, MD >jcdlmartin@aol.com > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================