Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 20:47:42 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Don Burggraf Subject: Robt. E. Lee - Pine Barrens Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi, all An hour in the "Pine Barrens" of Robert E. Lee park produced about a dozen warblers. Not much by some standards seen on this listserve, but still a happy experience standing there watching warblers flitting in all directions and having to choose which one to examine next. Warblers included Common Yellowthroat Blackpoll Black-and-White Northern Parula Yellow-rumped Black-throated Blue Black-throated Green (dozens!) Blackburnian Ovenbird Chestnut-sided Hooded American Redstart And a siinging Magnolia waiting for me at the church when I got back to the office. Other smiles: two beautiful scarlet tanagers crows mobbing a bird who turned out to be a calling barred owl Don Burggraf Baltimore dburggraf@hotmail.com >From: Michael O'Brien >Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Sedge Wren Safari and Two Sparrow Questions >Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:42:33 -0400 > >Don, > >Listen to the song of Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow on your bird tape. It >comes very close to your description of the possible Henslow's Sparrow. >Songs of both Henslow's and Nelson's could be phonetically rendered as >"see-lick" but compare overall quality and especially the length of the >introductory note. Both Saltmarsh and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows likely >occur in Eastern Shore marshes at this time of year even though records of >Nelson's are few. Henslow's has been gone as a breeder on the Eastern Shore >for at least 15 years and is unlikely to occur in a slatmarsh. But you >never >know. > >Michael O'Brien >West Cape May, NJ > >---------- > >From: Don Burggraf > >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Sedge Wren Safari and Two Sparrow Questions > >Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2003, 4:27 PM > > > > > >First, I heard a song which I can reasonably narrow down to the two > >Sharp-tailed Sparrows. I don?t have enough confidence in separating >those > >calls from each other. However, the Yellow Book seems to indicate that >in > >the Spring, the likelihood of Salt-marsh would be greatly stronger. Does > >anyone out there know whether the indication in the Yellow Book >accurately > >shows the population strength, or rather reflects a lack of data about >this > >recently-split pair of species? > > > >Second, I heard another call, as boring as it was dull as it was >regular. > >See-lick? See-lick. I puzzled over the call until I remembered the > >description of Henslow?s Sparrow. I have seen Henslow?s Sparrows before, > >but never heard one. I noticed on a species list in the house at Irish > >Grove, Henslow?s Sparrow has been reported in the area. When I returned > >home, I quickly found my Stokes? CDs of bird songs, and found Henslow?s > >Sparrow. My first reaction was, ?That could have been the bird I heard.? > >However, it seemed that the habitat was wrong. This call came from a >marsh. > > Not only do Henslow?s Sparrow more typically inhabit weedy fields, they > >spend most of their time on the ground. In Kauffman?s Lives of North > >American Birds, he mentions that Henslow?s Sparrows can show up in > >non-typical habitats in migration. But even he didn?t say anything about >a > >marsh. Does anyone out there who knows more about Henslow?s Sparrows >than I > >do have anything to say about whether one could ever be found in a marsh? > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================