Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:17:33 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Upper Watts Branch Park for 4/15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Last night's rain dropped a gaggle of Ruby-crowned Kinglets into the park with 5 in one tree and a total of 10 within another 100 feet. Birds of note: Cooper's hawk Female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Blue-headed Vireo (seen by Pat Scheid) House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (outside my window right now) Brown Thrasher Rufous-sided Towhee 3 Field Sparrows 4 Chipping Sparrows Swamp Sparrow 10 White-throated Sparrows Yesterday (4/14) there were 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers and 2 pairs of Purple Finches in the yard. Paul O'Brien Rockville, Mont. Co., MD pobrien776@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================