Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:13:45 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Upper Watts Branch Park for 4/22/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael and I ran into an unusually high concentration of 13 Hermit Thrushes on a hillside in the park this morning, then added another behind the house. Neither one of us has ever seen that many in these woods, nor in one place anywhere. Also present was a (Yellow) Palm and a Yellow-rumped Warbler as well as several Gnatcatchers and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. We also saw our first Tiger Swallowtail of the year. Paul O'Brien Rockville, Mont. Co., MD pobrien776@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================