Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:54:34 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Halethorpe Area (AA Co.) Comments: cc: Paula Warner , Charles Kucera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I did an evening trek along the Anne Arundel Co. side of the Patapsco River with Charlie Kucera, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We began at Snyder's Restaurant off of I-695 (exit 8), and walked east along the path above the river, to the BW Parkway, marveling at the lack of human intrusion into this area. Birding highlights were a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, great looks at PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, WARBLING VIREOs apparently setting up territories, and yet another newly discovered pair of BARRED OWLs. The number four comes to mind, as we have now located a total of four distinct pairs of Barred Owls, plus four additional individuals within four of the six atlas blocks in the Relay quad. Why this is particularly interesting is that three of these four blocks did NOT have Barred Owl during the atlas of the 1980s. Is this one of our expansion species? There seems to be LESS appropriate habitat in these blocks today than there was 20 years ago. All of the above sightings were in the Relay NE atlas block, belonging to Baltimore County. Barred Owl is new for the block, as will be Prothonotary (if it stays), once within safe dates (this weekend). Stan Arnold Glen Burnie dy.dx@verizon.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================