Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:13:42 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Webb Subject: More Dickcissels and Red-headed Woodpeckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Baltimore Bird Club field trip into Carroll County was a resounding success. We saw the featured birds as reported from the scouting trip last week, and also got nice views of the sparrows and horned larks which were heard-only birds on the scouting trip. The sparrows were seen on Jasontown Road (west of Westminster but northeast of New Windsor) west of Springdale Road. Before that stop, we stopped at Roops Mill Rd at Rockland Road, where we viewed fledgling Yellow Warblers and Carolina Chickadees being fed by their parents. We settled for four Red-headed Woodpeckers at two stops, the Dickcissels at their location posted last week, and distant Bobolinks at the sites of last week plus another site on Keysville-Bruceville Road about 3/4 mile southeast of the intersection with Keysville Road, where we also saw numerous Eastern Meadowlarks carrying food to their nestlings hidden in the tall grass, and our nicest posing Grasshopper Sparrow. The 13 people from the park-n-ride meeting place were joined for three stops on the trip (Red-headed Woodpecker, Dickcissels, and the first Bobolink stop) by Stan Arnold and Joan DeCarli, making 15 observers total, and 65 species of birds seen. The weather looked iffy at first, heavy fog getting even worse as we proceeded towards our first stop, getting lost on the way and taking an alternate route to reach our first stop on Roops Mill Road. But the weather cleared to a beautiful, mostly sunny day in equally beautiful, rural surroundings and wonderful birds to be seen and heard. Our first stop also gave us a view of a singing Scarlet Tanager, always a treat, and the Red-headed Woodpeckers were colorful as always. A full species list follows: Great Blue Heron - Baltimore County only, flyover at the park-n-ride Green Heron - flyby at one of the Bobolink stops Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Osprey - flyover at the last Bobolink stop Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel - seen at least four sites; only one site last week Killdeer Rock Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker: 1 at Otterdale Mill Road, 3 at Roops Mill Road Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Flicker (Northern, Yellow-shafted) Peewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo (at Roops Mill Road, where some years back another field trip saw parents feeding young in the nest) Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark - Jasonville Road Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee - parents feeding fledged young as noted above Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren House Wren Gnatcatcher Bluebird - fledged young (with spots) at Jasonville Road Wood Thrush Robin Gray Catbird - adult feeding young Roops Mill Road stop Mockingbird Brown Thrasher - two or three stops Starling - noisy fledged young several stops Cedar Waxwing - Roops Mill Road, probably breeding but not verified Yellow Warbler - both parents feeding three young Roops Mill Road Ovenbird Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager - Roops Mill Road Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow - several stops but not where the Vespers and Hoppers were Vesper Sparrow - seen at Jasonville Road, heard couple of other stops Grasshopper Sparrow - seen Jasonville and last Bobolink stop, heard elsewhere Song Sparrow Cardinal Indigo Bunting Dickcissel - Bullfrog Road as described last week, west of Taneytown near Frederick County line and the Monocacy Bobolink - Keysville Road, Bruceville-Keysville Road, distant, flying. Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark - food for young hidden in grasses, last Bobolink stop Grackle Cowbird Baltimore Oriole - two stops House Finch Goldfinch House Sparrow Thanks to the observers: Shireen G., Ken F. from Canberra, Australia, Cathy C., Helene G., Gail F., Denise B., Sondra S., Cathy & Steve H., Steve S., John S., and joining for 3 stops Stan A. and Joan DeC. Leader and reporting: Pete Webb .. and with hats off to Jimmy Durante, goodnight Marty M., wherever you are. Pete Webb Baltimore, Md (USA) pwebb@bcpl.net (home, after 6) pew@niroinc.com (work, 830-5 M-F) P.S. -- got another virus with a rejection notice from MDOsprey refering to a "pwebb@bverizon.net" as trying to send a virus, complete with the intact virus with the rejection notice. The rejection message called it a 'Exploit.IFrame.FileDownload' virus. Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=1374[1].exe The content, claiming to be an audio file, carried a tell-tale .exe file type, not an audio file but a virus. The rejection notice came to me at my bcpl address despite the author supposedly sending from a verizon address. As far as I know, I'm not infected, but everybody stay alert: if you get a rejection notice like this, be careful not to let it get opened. I'm taking a copy, de-fanged by inclusion into a .wri text file, to my company's computer gurus next Monday for analysis, but it looks like yet another virus on the loose and in circulation among us. Just stay alert and be careful! I don't know whether it would open automatically for users of Microsoft Outlook, the most popular email software package, but I've removed Outlook from my PC and may have escaped virus infection two or three times as a result. Maybe I should add: .. and good luck, "pwebb@verizon.net", whoever you are. 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