Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:39:56 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Owings Mills Wetland/BBC Trip (5/19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sunday, May 19th eleven birders tallied sixty-two species during the Baltimore Bird Club's Owings Mills Wetland trip. We were delighted to find eight warbler species including a WILSON'S WARBLER, two NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, two LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, and fourteen YELLOW WARBLER. Minutes after the group departed Steve Sanford and I enjoyed seeing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo and a Green Heron. The complete list: Great Blue Heron (3), Green Heron (1), Black Vulture (3), Canada Goose (7), Mallard (1), Red-shouldered Hawk (1), Red-tailed Hawk (1), Solitary Sandpiper (1), Spotted Sandpiper (2), Herring Gull (1), Rock Dove (2), Mourning Dove (8), Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1), Chimney Swift (7), Belted Kingfisher (1), Red-bellied Woodpecker (3), Downy Woodpecker (3), Northern Flicker (1), Pileated Woodpecker (1), WILLOW FLYCATCHER (6), Eastern Phoebe (2), Eastern Kingbird (2), Warbling Vireo (3), Red-eyed Vireo (1), Blue Jay (2), American Crow (7), Fish Crow (1), Northern Rough-winged Swallow (10), Barn Swallow (13), Carolina Chickadee (3), Tufted Titmouse (2), Carolina Wren (3), House Wren (1), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1), Wood Thrush (1), American Robin (7), Gray Catbird (9), Northern Mockingbird (7), Brown Thrasher (2), European Starling (16), Cedar Waxwing (18), YELLOW WARBLER (14), YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (2), BLACKPOLL WARBLER (5), OVENBIRD (1), NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (2), LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH (2), COMMON YELLOWTHROAT (9), WILSON'S WARBLER (1), Chipping Sparrow (1), Field Sparrow (4), Song Sparrow (3), Northern Cardinal (5), Indigo Bunting (8), Red-winged Blackbird (7), Common Grackle (10), Brown-headed Cowbird (8), Orchard Oriole (1), Baltimore Oriole (7), House Finch (6), American Goldfinch (8), House Sparrow (10). To Anne, Wendy, Denise, Catherine, Dwight, Georgia, Steve, Ben, Paula, Marty, and Ray - Thank you coming; I had a great time! BTW: Jim Peters reports that the Western Kingbird is still at Ft. McHenry. Keith Eric Costley oriolekec1@aol.com Randallstown, BC ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================