Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:47:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Meghan Tice Subject: Glenn Dale Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Regarding the below, previously posted message, forgot to mention there w= as a pair of Northern Flickers mating on a large branch of a mature willo= w oak in the horse pasture. Also Barn Swallows swooping around a horse s= helter (didn't write the home stuff down). =20 Today had a mature, calling Red-shouldered Hawk and an immature together = in one tree while another adult called from a nearby location. They bree= d in an adjacent swamp. =20 Other birds observed this morning while briefly enjoying the outdoors inc= luded: Yellow-billed Cuckoo; Blackpoll, Myrtle (many), and Northern Parul= a; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; Common Grackles (many), Red-winged Blackbirds, = and Brown-headed Cowbirds; Fish Crows and Blue Jays; Tufted Titmouse; Chi= mney Swifts; Barn Swallows; Northern Flicker; Mourning Dove; Northern Car= dinal; Carolina Wren; and the bleeding House Sparrows. Also had an unide= ntified pair of ducks fly over that may have been Woods. =20 Would like to contact the Atlas coordinator for Prince George's and/or fi= nd out if anyone is covering a block that my locale falls into. Please c= ontact me off-list for my exact location if you are interested. I'd like= to volunteer any information I have a chance to observe and am willing t= o collect data for a new block if no-one is already covering it. =20 Thank you, Meghan Tice Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD cecropia13@msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Meghan Tice Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:33 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Fort Dupont Park, Washington, D.C., Sunday, May 4 When I returned home, went out into a horse pasture to check on birds in = nearby mature trees: myrtle, blackpoll, chestnut-sided, and worm-eating w= arblers, lots of robins and house sparrows, grackles, cowbirds, and an im= mature red-shouldered hawk that playfully looked about in the grass and f= rom a low branch; not alarming any other bird in the slightest and not a = single bit interested in my birding the field. Meghan Tice Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD cecropia13@msn.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================