Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:01:53 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Stock Subject: Re: Sligo Creek Herons Back MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You might be right, Rick. The nest I saw this morning might be from last year. It's a pretty flimsy affair. I've been checking as I drive by, so haven't looked carefully until this a.m. Last year, the high count of herons (adults) I had at this spot was seven. I wonder if more are on their way... Tom Stock In a message dated 3/29/2003 12:04:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Warblerick@AOL.COM writes: > In a message dated 3/29/2003 10:37:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, > ALTOMOMATIC@AOL.COM writes: > > > This morning, two Yellow-crowned Night Herons are back at the spot where > at > > least two pair nested last year, along Sligo Creek Parkway about 2/10 of > a > > mile west of its intersection with Piney Branch Road. From the looks of > > the > > nest they've begun to build, they may have been back a couple days > already. > > > > Tom, > I have been checking this site for the last couple of weeks, about twice a > week. They were not there as of Thursday AM when I checked, so they are > recently arrived. Double check the nest though. At least one survived the > winter and that may be the one you saw, and/or they may be re-building it. > Had my first Gnatcatcher singing there on Tuesday morning, too. Also E. > Phoebe. On Thursday AM there was a Red-tailed Hawk perched in a tree over > the > creek between the bridge and the tennis courts. > > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================