Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:08:41 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Don Simonson Subject: Sora at Hughes Hollow, Mont. Co. 10/2 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline One SORA was calling and then seen at Hughes Hollow, Mont. Co., this morning at approx 7 am. It responded once or twice to my whistle and then stopped. It was at the very first dike on the right, at the juncture of the dikes where the signboard is. A little later, thanks to the very dense low fog, I was able to look at the rising sun w/10x binos [do not attempt this at home] and saw SUNSPOTS for the first time in my life! Four distinct ones. 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were flying due west at sundown over my yard in Darnestown. I flushed a Red-shouldered hawk from the walnut tree behind the barn at dusk - I suspect a migrant that had put down for the night there, as the locals always hang out on the far side of the field by the creek. Anyway it had a full crop and a gray squirrel was very non- chalantly gathering nuts on the ground below it. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================