Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:10:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Y-t Warbler and other HO-CA-BA Co birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had great close-up looks at a singing Yellow-throated Warbler this morning at the north end of Henryton Rd, northeast Howard Co. This is where they seem to be every year at this time, presumably breeding. Palm, Myrtles, and B&W's added to the color there. Neither I nor anyone I've talked to has seen or heard Y-t Warbler at the Liberty Dam trail area since I heard one there about 2 weeks ago. I birded various areas from River road, Sykesville to Henryton, to the Marriottsville Rd area today, with a total of 10 warbler species. So spring must be here. I'd still like to see some tanagers, buntings, grosbeaks, and solid orioles though. Yesterday, Joel Martin showed Gail Frantz and me around the new Mears Farm section of Patapsco State Park. It has lots of grassland and scrub habitat with 5+ singing Prairie Warblers. (No Vesper Sparrows though.) Then we went to Halethorpe Ponds, where lots of Yellow Warblers were the highlight, plus a mainly heard-only Orchard Oriole. Spring firsts for me yesterday and today were: Spotted Sandpiper - 4/28 Henryton Great-crested Flycatcher - 4/28 McKeldin area Yellow-throated Vireo - 4/28 Liberty Dam trailhead White-eyed Vireo - 4/27 Mears Farm Blue-winged Warbler - 4/28 River Rd Yellow Warbler 4/27 - Halethorpe Ponds Orchard Oriole - 4/27 ditto Also had Brown Thrasher in my yard 2 days in a row -- a rare species here. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================