Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 00:38:15 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Frank Powers Subject: Red-shoudered Hawk fledglings, C & O Canal MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Finally! After watching a nest on the Canal for weeks now, got to see at least two heads pop up when the female came back to feed the brood. Who's got this atlas block? Also, were several pairs of Canada Geese with goslings on the river (ranging in size from 3 to 5). Several species were engaged in nest construction, including an intrepid pair of Northern Parulas. Others were involved in courtship display and song. Two male Prothonotary Warblers were singing and moving about. 2 male Red-bellied Woodpeckers were having a go while the female hung around (they were chasing each other for the entire 50 minutes or so I was watching the hawk's nest). Three male Orchard Orioles were also singing. And there were at least 5 Warbling Vireos singing away in proximity to one another. Other birds of interest included: Wood Duck Black Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Pileated Woodpecker Great-crested Flycatcher Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow (nest construction) House Wren (courtship display) Veery Wood Thrush Veery Hairy Woodpecker Cedar Waxwing Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warlber Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warlber Prarie Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Common Yellowthroat Baltimore Oriole May your best birding happen next weekend, Frank Powers Glen Echo, MD Montgomery County frankpowers@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================