Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:02:50 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Laura M. Appelbaum" Subject: Re: MDOSPREY Digest - 26 Sep 2002 to 27 Sep 2002 (#2002-269) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Sussman wrote: > > This morning while birding for a short time down by the aquatic park, my wife > and I had 3 Orange-crowned Warblers in a tree. They were as vocal as the one > in Ashton this past Sunday, and that's how I located them. > > Also seen were a flock of about 8 Red-masked Parakeets, a nice juvenile > (western) Red-tailed Hawk, a pair of Anna's Hummingbirds (spectacular male > and a female) a beautiful BLACK PHOEBE (lifer), a lone Western/Clark's Grebe > out in the water, and many Western Gulls ... as you may have > guessed, we're not home, we're in San Francisco! > You bum!!! Here I was, yelling out to my husband downstairs; "Alan, we have GOT to get over to Ashton today!" before I got to the part where you told us where you *really* are! LOL! And there I was, wondering how the heck those Anna's Hummingbirds got to Maryland. Sounds like you're already having fun, so I won't bother to wish you a good time out West. :) Laura Appelbaum Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================