Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:48:09 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jean Woods Subject: Re: New Arrivals For Charles County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi George, Thanks for your offer of help! I usually am doing my work during the week, which might be a problem for you to get off your work. My schedule is busy here and I am also trying to avoid bad weather, but I am hoping to get to Charles Co sometime next week. If you are not likely to be free to help me find birds in person, maybe you could point me to the most likely spots for finding birds in the county? I've been having reasonably good success following other people's reports and finding their birds. Also, I'll probably stay in a motel since Charles Co must be at least 3 hours from here. I'm guessing La Plata has most or all of the motels- are things likely to be open again there? If not, I'll plan to stay somewhere like Leonardtown or up in PG county. Rt 301 is also the obvious way to get from here to the southern part of the county- is it closed? Thanks for all your help! Jean Jean L. Woods, Ph.D. Phone: 302-658-9111 x314 Curator of Birds FAX: 302-658-2610 Delaware Museum of Natural History jwoods@delmnh.org 4840 Kennett Pike, Box 3937 www.delmnh.org Wilmington, DE 19807-0937 USA -----Original Message----- From: George M. Jett [mailto:gmjett@EROLS.COM] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:02 AM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] New Arrivals For Charles County Folks While looking for Frosted Elfin this weekend in lower Charles County, Gwen and I encountered a few new arrivals that may be of interest to county listers. The locations were Maryland Point Road and Rt. 224 near Thorne Gut up to Liverpool Point Road, but other locations will be noted. We did not find the Elfin but did find several Carolina Satyrs along Rt. 224 near Liverpool Point Rd. for those butterfly county listers. May 4 Solitary Sandpiper - Friendship Landing Road pool. Spotted Sandpiper - Bumpy Oak Road wetlands Red-headed Woodpecker - Bumpy Oak Road wetlands Great Crested Flycatcher - MD. Pt. Rd. This species has been around the house since 5/2. Yellow-throated Vireo - MD. Pt. Rd., Thorne Gut Wood Thrush - MD. Pt. Rd. Chestnut-sided Warbler - Thorne Gut Black-throated Green Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. Yellow-throated Warbler - Rt. 224 north of Thorne Gut Pine Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. Prairie Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. Black & White Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. Also at the house. American Redstart - Bumpy Oak Rd. Prothonotary Warbler - Thorne Gut Worm-eating Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. Louisiana Waterthrush - Thorne Gut Common Yellowthroat - Md. Pt. Rd. One visited the house on May 1. Hooded Warbler - Md. Pt. Rd. and Rt. 224. At least six birds were singing in different locations. Yellow-breasted Chat - Rt. 224 Scarlet Tanager - Md. Pt. Rd. and the house on 5/3. Indigo Bunting - in everywhere. Had one at the house singing in late April. Thorne Gut is approximate 1.5 miles south of Liverpool Point Rd. on Rt. 224. On May 5 I started scouting for my Big Charles County Day. New species in and perhaps on territory were: Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Rt. 228 wetlands House Wren - north end of Bumpy Oak Rd. Prothonotary Warbler - Mattawoman Wildlands, Bumpy Oak wetlands. Blue Grosbeak - Rt. 228 wetlands, Bumpy Oak Rd. A latish White-throated Sparrow lingers at the house as of 5/5. My only new yard bird for the year this weekend was a small flock of Laughing Gulls calling and heading north about 6 PM on May 5. Good day. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================