Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:57:51 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Simonson, Don (OD/ORS)" Subject: Bird Sightings Seneca Schoolhouse + hughes hollow May Day 2002 Comments: cc: "ans voice (E-mail)" , "Swift Byron (E-mail)" , "Weed, Jim (OD/ORS)" , "Morgan, Eileen (OD/ORS)" , "Crowell, James S. (OD/ORS)" , "Greene, Jim" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Happy May Day! was the message from the birds this morning at Seneca Schoolhouse Museum (SSM) on River Road and Hughes Hollow (HH) Montgomery county MD . 80 species including 16 species of warbler: Hundreds of passerines were precipitating from the sky and landing in the tall trees behind Seneca Schoolhouse Museum near daybreak. American Bittern - 1 seen in flight and "frozen" perching with bill pointed up - HH, last impoundment on right before the woods Marsh Wren - 1 seen and calling, HH same spot as Bittern Yellow-crowned Night Heron - at least one, possibly 2, flying - HH Green-backed Heron - 5 HH Pied-billed Grebe - 2 HH Blue-winged Teal - 1 HH Acadian Flycatcher - 1 SSM Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 calling SSM Blue-winged Warbler - 1 seen and heard singing SSM Yellow Warbler - 1 SSM, 2 HH Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6 SSM Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 SSM Blackburnian Warbler - 1 SSM Cerulean Warbler - 1 singing SSM Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 at SSM Baltimore Oriole - at least 10 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 singing at NIH Animal Center, Poolesville MD Don Simonson, MCP email: LSimon@erols.com Bethesda, MD 20892 phone days 301-496-3348 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================