Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:04:58 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Philly Vireos in Rock Creek today Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- The cold front prompted us to get out and look for migrants, having more-or-less recovered from Panama (although I'm nursing a cold caught, no surprise, on the plane back!) It was a good morning both on the Ridge (picnic areas 17/18 and environs) and in the Maintenance Yard. We did the Ridge first and then went to the Yard, some folks did the latter site first. The ridge had a very strong early movement of warblers and vireos, many unidentified in less-than-perfect light. The following is our tally, plus species input from Maintenance Yard folks. Warblers: Black and White (3), Blackpoll (3), "Baypoll" (1), Blackburnian (7, including 3 stunning adult males), Black-throated Green (4), Canada (3), Chestnut-sided (~15), Magnolia (~15), Nashville (2), Redstart (5), Yellowthroat (10). The Maintenance Yard observers also had Blue-winged, BT Blue, Parula and Ovenbird. (14 spp. in all) Vireos: PHILADELPHIA (2 or 3, two at the ridge together and one later down at the horse ring, which *might* have been one of the first pair -- or maybe not!), White-eyed (2), Yellow-throated (2), Red-eyed (~10). Other species of note: Veery (1), Wood Thrush (1), Baltimore Oriole (1), Scarlet Tanager (1), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2), Ruby-throated Hummingbird (3), House Wren (~10), "Traill's" Flycatcher (1), Eastern Wood-pewee (8), Brown Thrasher (1), Gray Catbird (6). Maybe the dam has finally broken! Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================