Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:57:10 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: More Signs of Spring Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I birded at Hughes Hollow both Saturday, March 2 and again Sunday, March 3, looking for early spring migrants. As usual this time of year, there was a mixed bag of winter and spring birds: Saturday, March 2: Found at least 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS (one adult, one sub-adult just coming into its first adult plumage) working the dead trees in the second large impoundment on the right, a pair of both Pileated Woodpeckers and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, as well as Downy, Red-bellied and flickers. A lone pair of Hooded Mergs, a number of Wood Ducks flying around, with a dozen or so Ring-necked Ducks on the water, 4 flyover Common Snipe, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Swamp Sparrow, a lone A. Tree Sparrow, Hermit Thrush, a small number of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS feeding in the wet leaf litter between the impoundments, both kinglet species, a single Yellow-rumped Warbler. On Sunday, March 3: No Rusty Blackbirds were found, but 4 TREE SWALLOWS were present when I arrived, and by the time I left there were at least a dozen. Red-headed Woodpeckers were again active, this time 3-4, including the sub-adult. Hermit Thrush, 2 Winter Wrens, a calling Barred Owl, 2 A.Tree Sparrows and a single Swamp, a lone flyover snipe, an immature sharpie hunting the wet woods, a single Red-shouldered and a single Red-tailed Hawk. Spring is slowly creeping in... Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================