Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 19:29:14 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: More British Ticks ( including Lake Roland) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It has been an intense few days of great (fairly) local birding. Just to scratch the surface... The Baltimore Bird Club field trip Tuesday (5/7) at Lake Roland was excellent with 93 species including 19 warblers. Some of the best were Wilson's, Hooded, Canada, and Worm-eating Warblers, well-seen. Other goodies were numerous shorebirds including Semipalmated Plover. Visiting British birder Tony Eveleigh got a number of good lifers there such as Baltimore Oriole and the Wilson's, Canada, and Worm-eating Warblers. Alas, he missed the Pileated Woodpecker! In the afternoon (5/7) some of us took visiting British birder Tony Eveleigh to Carroll County west of Manchester for one of his best life-birds: Red-headed Woodpecker. It appeared at the last moment at Eckard Rd and Fridinger Rd. We also ran into Sharon Schwemmer who originally made us aware of this wonderful area for Red-headed Woodpeckers. It turns out Tony may be a relative of hers! Then Tony got 3 more lifers by the wonderful pond a mile up Eckard Rd: White-crowned Sparrow (6+), Yellow Warbler, and Wood Duck. I can't wait to hear what he picks up at Bombay Hook today. Backtracking, on Monday (5/6) we took Tony to Patuxent North Tract. We got great looks at Summer Tanager (at the last minute, of course), Blue Grosbeak, Prothonotary Warbler, Wood Thrush, and Orchard Oriole among others. I went briefly to the Lily Pons area today (5/8). Bobolinks are in at the corner of Rt 85 and Lily Pons Rd. I also had a Cerulean Warbler (heard only, but well) at the McKeldin area of Patapsco St Pk near the rapids. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================