Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:53:22 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Layhill Park Friday, Sept. 6 Comments: To: voice@audubonnaturalist.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I stopped by Layhill Park this morning for an hour or so of quick birding. As I pulled into the parking lot, I met Linda Friedland who was just finishing a walk through the park. She was wearing green wellies and was still wet from the waist down, but said she had a nice run of migrants, with something like 8 or 9 warblers, plus Red-eyed, White-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireos. It didn't take much arm-twisting to get her to go back out for another short run through the north fields, so off we went. We found, in addition to the species she found earlier (B&W Warbler, N Parula, A Redstart, Magnolia, B-throated Green and Blue, C. Yellowthroat, and Bay-breasted) a really nicely plumaged pair of CAPE MAY WARBLERS, and just below them another Bay-breasted. Also in this small band of birds were two Chestnut-sided Warblers. Further in the park we had A. Redstarts, White-eyed Vireo and a whole flock of Red-eyed Vireos, E. Wood-pewee, and some empids, B-G Gnatcatchers, and some other local breeders. Also a beautifully plumaged male Baltimore Oriole in perfect sunlight at the top of a small tree. Something like 36 species in about an hour, with some nice migrants. \ Hope everyone has a good birding weekend... Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================