Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:19:03 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Noyes Subject: SUTA at NWVC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii While checking the trail around Cash Lake at the National Wildlife Visitor Center this a.m., I spotted a very late-in-the-season female SUMMER TANAGER in the trees just before the blind by the floating bridge. In the same area there were a couple of brown thrashers, several catbirds and a yellow-billed cuckoo. Along the muddy edges of Cash Lake I counted at least 13 killdeer and 3 least sandpipers; an osprey flew overhead. At the outlet from the lake I counted at least six immature bluebirds (still partly spotted); one held a huge caterpillar and constantly kept trying to reposition it as if trying to swallow it all at once. It finally flew off with the caterpillar hanging from its beak. There was a lot of activity high in the forest canopy...to far for me to identify. Am. goldfinches and chipping sparrows were everywhere. (We had an unfortunate mortality today...a lethal window strike by a green heron....ar-r-r-g-h!!) Steve Noyes, Volunteer Naturalist, NWVC, Laurel MD noyessh@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! =========================================================================