Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:03:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (SV-SW Meadowbrook /Plum Tree) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Since the weather was good this morning I slipped out to Meadowbrook where I found my first PALM WARBLER of the spring. FOX SPARROWS were singing and a single SAVANNAH was probably a migrant. 2 pair of GREAT BLUE HERONS flying over and a single PIED-BILLED GREBE and HOOD MERGANSER on the "big rock" pond. 2 different CANADA GEESE on nests. A resident KESTREL and pair of RED-TAILED HAWKS bear close watching. A couple COMMON SNIPE in the marshy spots along with a few SWAMP SPARROWS. I then went to Plum Tree in Dorsey Hall where I found an AMERICAN BITTERN in the cattails. A pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS near a very active looking nest. A pair of RED-BELLIED and CHICKADEES both excavating nest holes. LICKERS everywhere interested in the old holes. A singing SWAMP SPARROW , 2 COMMON SNIPE and half a dozen gorgeous RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. While I was in the woods watching a female nuthatch carrying nesting material (which she dropped by a cavity) I saw a flash of white go though my bins- a GREAT EGRET (what serendipity!). A single male WOOD DUCK was along the stream. Bonnie Ott (field trip chair) Ellicott city, Howard County Maryland bonnie1163@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================