Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:52:34 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll County Atlasing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It was a great weekend for atlasing. I saw Red-headed Woodpeckers = in 7 locations in the northern parts of the county. They seem to be = more common than ever this year. Cedar Waxwings also seem to be more = numerous than in past years. I also checked the Dickcissel site found = by Pete Webb and Steve Sanford. The side of the road was being mowed = but the field was untouched. I saw two birds, one of which was singing. = They were not close to the road and a 'scope was needed to identify = them visually. My best sighting of the weekend was a Cooper's Hawk on Sunday (my = fourth of the weekend). I first saw it soaring and gliding slowly = before it suddenly went into a vertical dive. It dropped below some = intervening high ground but quickly reappeared flat out in hot pursuit = of a bird. I had no sooner been able to identify the prey as a Mourning = Dove when the chase ended in a shower of feathers. Good for the hawk. = Good for me since Cooper's is difficult to confirm. Not so good for the = dove, but there were numerous juveniles around the farm that day. The = bird that was taken may have been an uneducated one of those. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================