Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:10:14 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Beal Subject: Soggy Morning Bird Walk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Took a 'Birding Pal' from Belgium for a bird walk this am despite the weather. It was the only time we could match schedules. Went to the Governor Bridge unit of the Pax River Park (PG Co, near 50&301) and our scout troop's bluebird trail. Despite constant rain or drizzle he saw a good number of birds. Highlights were Pine, Palm Yellow-rump and Northern Waterthrush for warblers. Much more colorful than the European warblers. Up to seven brown creepers, including a pair and a threesome. Think he got the impression they are common. Missed most of the woodpeckers in the rain, except for several large (7-10 individuals) of flickers. Could only find one bluebird on the trail. Has is been a tough winter on the bb population? He saws that House Sparrows are actually DECLINING in Belgium and offer to accept all that we could ship him! I think it's worth the postage. Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Sharp-shinned Hawk Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Kingfisher Downy WP Flicker Phoebe Blue Jay Crow(s?) Tree Swallow Chickadee Titmouse Brown Creeper RC Kinglet E. Bluebird Robin Mockingbird Starling YR Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Northern Waterthrush Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Wh-throated Sparrow Junco Cardinal RW Blackbird Com Grackle House Sparrow Tom Beal ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================