Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:14:09 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Hans Holbrook Subject: Washington Co., Mourning Warbler etc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Went up to Washington County with my dad, and met up with Floyd Murdoch at his nature center at Mt. Etna Camp located off Mt Etna and Crystal Falls Roads. Upon arrival I went up the 50 foot tower to get a better look at some warblers in the canopy. As it turned out they were at eye level and it was raining. We decided to do a 'Big Sit' from the tower. We were pleasently surprised to get 74 species from the tower and eight more in the surrounding area(marked with (*)) in just over seven hours. Two ladies(sorry I have forgotten your names) conducting their spring count dropped by for a bit, and we were later joined by Ron Vandervort too. Great Blue Heron 2 Canada Goose 1 Wood Duck 2 Black Vulture 6 Turkey Vulture 15 Osprey 12 Bald Eagle 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1* Broad-winged Hawk 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Killdeer 1* Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Chimney Swift Ruby-throated hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker (nesting) Flicker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 2 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER 1 Pewee 5 Acaidian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Pheobe 2 (nesting) Great Crested Flycatcher (nesting) Eastern Kingbird 3 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 1 Barn Swallow Blue Jay Fish Crow 5 American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Gnatcather 6* Veery 1* Swainson's Thrush 1* Wood thrush Catbird Brown Thrasher 3* Mockingbird 1 Starling Blue-headed Vireo 7 Red-eyed Vireo NASHVILLE WARBLER 2 Parula 4 Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 13 Magnolia Warbler 9 Myrtle Warbler 100+ Black-throated Green 6 Blackburnian 7 Bay-breasted 5 Blackpoll 15 Black and White 9 Redstart 6 Ovenbird 1 Yellowthroat 2 WILSON'S WARBLER 1 MOURNING WARBLER 1* male Canada Warbler 2 Scarlet Tanager Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak several Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 14 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Cowbird 8 Grackle Meadowlark 1* Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimaore Oriole many House Finch Goldfinch Stayed dry, didn't walk much, and got free lunch, you beat that. Hans Holbrook Columbia, MD _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================