Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:27:32 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Wilkerson, Jordan T." Subject: Pocomoke River; odd Prothonotary song Comments: cc: "Lynn Burroughs & Michael Graham (E-mail 2)" , "karen.salvini@noaa.gov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MDOsprey, We enjoyed our annual canoe trip on the Pocomoke River last weekend (Snow Hill, MD). With the stealth and nimbleness of a battleship we hunted down a singing warbler and expected to find a bouncing branch upon which a Nashville warbler had been singing just moments earlier. What we found was a very tolerant (and probably amused) Prothonotary singing a decidedly 2-parted song. It consisted of about 7 notes altogether and sounded like a Nashville. We watched this bird sing so barring expert mimicry and well-timed ventriloquism we are sure there was not a singing Nashville in the area. Anyone ever heard a Prothonotary like this? Anyway, interesting. Birds of note on the river: More Prothonotary's than you can shake a stick at (whatever that means) Worm Eating Yellow Throated Warbler (fewer than we usually ID there in the spring; I think only 3) Barred Owl Blue Grosbeak and an Indigo Bunting sitting on the same branch together. Both Orioles Both Waterthrushes Scarlet Tanager Catbirds everywhere Jordan Wilkerson Cloverly, MD Montgomery County jordan.wilkerson@jhuapl.edu jandk@jordanandkaren.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================