Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:22:23 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Ho Co (Wilde lake) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Wow! things are heating up - so many birds coming in that it's hard to catch a breath! The weekday walk at Wilde lake in Columbia turned up 60 species. I normally don't do a complete list but will provide one for folks that attended(we didn't get to do a trip list). PB grebe Canada Goose Mallard Great B Heron Cooper's Hawk (two in a courtship display) Spotted sandpiper Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Red-Bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker northern Flicker Acadian Flycatcher Great crested Fly Eastern Kingbird Blue jay American Crow Fish Crow White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Starling Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray gnat (on nest) Tree swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chick titmouse house sparrow goldfinch housefinch northern parula yellow warbler magnolia warbler Black-throated blue yellow-rumped black throated green Blackburnian blackpoll black-and-white redstart ovenbird yellowthroat song sparrow white-throated sparrow eastern towhee scarlet tanager' cardinal indigo bunting Baltimore oriole orchard oriole red-wing blackbird common grackle brown-headed cowbird YIKES!! Now I know why I don't put the whole trip list down! Bonnie Ott (field trip chair) Ellicott city, Howard County Maryland bonnie1163@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================