Date:         Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:25:39 -0500
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From:         Bonnie Ott <bonnie1163@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Ho Co (Atlasing)
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    Spent the better part of the morning working some areas in my
atlas block I had never birded before. Highlights were:
    In the Kiwanis ballfield park we found 2 migrant SAVANNAHS perched
on the chain link fence. Heard my first BROWN THRASHER in the fields
behind the ballfields.
    Off of Davis rd we scanned the corn stubble field and found a
VESPER SPARROW!!!! A delightful find along with a mature WHITE-CROWN
and sing FOX SPARROWS.
    In the rec and park property behind Manor Woods ele school we
found all the expected woodpeckers. A WINTER WREN skulking along a
fallen log, HERMIT THRUSH and pair of RED-TAILS HAWKS (but no sign of
a nest). A marshy drainage pond along the sewer cut held a single
COMMON SNIPE and 4 SWAMP SPARROWS. A single CHIPPING sparrow singing
in a suburban yard made for a very sparrowish day.

Bonnie Ott (field trip chair)
Ellicott city, Howard County
Maryland
bonnie1163@comcast.net

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