Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:44:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Howard County Birds MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT It has been a 100 species weekend. Quite incredible with numbers and diversity. (even with an almost complete lack of raptors/flyovers) May count netted us more warblers than I have seen for in quite some time. Rockburn hosted 22 species of warblers and good numbers of most. 10 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS (7 on my feeders at one time). 2 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS together up by the "haunted house". Today we went and chased some birds- a COMMON MOORHEN was still on the island at Font Hill off Centennial Lane. While watching the moorhen we heard a calling BB Cuckoo. By the font hill pond we had a LEAST FLYCATCHER. Dipped on the snowy egret at Elkhorn but other birders found a singing least there also. Thought we'd see what was at Middle Patuxent and although we had nowhere near yesterday's numbers we found some great birds. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER on the trail down to marker 14. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH among many VEERY, SWAINSON and WOOD THRUSHES. A BAY-BREASTED WARBLER was one of 19 warbler species found. Got home to a very nice surprise. A singing ALDER FLYCATCHER behind the house. (have not seen it for the last couple hours though). While tallying my May count totals yesterday I had a CHAT singing in the locust off the deck. Both the chat and alder are new yard birds. Bonnie Ott Howard County Field Trip Chair Ellicott City, MD bonnie1163@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================