Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:34:44 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Dunne Subject: White Ibis not found MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After nearly a month, the immature White Ibis appears to have moved on. At least as of this morning (Sat. 8/3, 9am), I could not find it. I hope that doesn't keep you all from coming to my favorite, local birding spot. I've met a number of you at the site, which has been a pleasure for me, as I can only remember running into 2 other birders at this location in the last 1.5 years, prior to the Ibis sighting. (I bird Black Hills nearly every Saturday morning, mostly in the fields/woods near the boat landing.) For some reason, today was Goldfinch and butterfly day! Dozens of each. To see yellow dancing in the sky and among the wild flowers is enough to melt the worries of the world away, if only for the couple of hours spent there. I enjoyed a Carolina Wren up close. I was attracted to it, not by it's normal tea-kettle song, but a sharper, single-note call, most likely an alarm because of my presence. In the 'blue' spectrum, I spotted an Indigo Bunting, Eastern Bluebirds, Great Blue Heron, and Belted Kingfisher. Green was represented by the plethora of Green Herons (where the Ibis should have been!!!). I really thought that I had a naked-eye view of a Baltimore Oriole, but was amused when it turned out to be a leaf. All common, yet still beautiful to observe. take care, Tom Dunne Damascus, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================