Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 06:59:27 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynette Fullerton Subject: Weekend Birds In-Reply-To: <000701c31e08$4eb0ff20$6eeffea9@u5r8w9> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It's so good to see the sun again - for a while I was thinking I must have slept through summer and woken up in November... The gloomy weather didn't seem to keep the birds down this weekend, though. Yesterday, for the first time in weeks, I had nothing I had to do and nowhere I had to be, so I just stayed around the house and got some yard work done (why do people always seem to complain about yard work? It's a mystery to me...It seems a shame to even call it work - it's more like 'green therapy' to me!). The male Baltimore Oriole is still singing his heart out - I've heard the song so many times now that it's stuck in my head like a TV jingle. It's nice to hear him, but I'm wondering why some female hasn't grabbed him up yet. He covers a lot of ground - sometimes singing from the top of the hickory tree, sometimes around back, from the sycamore or one of the tulip poplars...Also keeping me company were Goldfinches, Great Crested Flycatcher, about a dozen Cardinals, Mourning Doves, and off in the distance I could hear a Wood Thrush, an Ovenbird, and a Pewee... A non-bird (mostly) question: A few days ago I found a dead female Cardinal by the house. I put her down under the honey locust tree near the back of the yard, and forgot about her until yesterday, when I was weeding near that tree. I thought something had taken the body away, but then I saw the tips of tail feathers peeking up from the ground. Something had buried it. I know Carrion beetles will do that - is that what I'm seeing here? Finally...I saw my life Nighthawks just one week ago - flying around the lights at a shopping center in Laurel (AA Co.), and since that night I have seen them twice more. Friday night I saw several fly over Glen Echo Park (Mo. Co.), and Saturday night I saw one at the shopping center in Odenton. It really makes me wonder if I've just never seen them before, or if I have and didn't know what I was looking at. I guess that's it! Good birding! Lynette Fullerton l_fullerton_1999@yahoo.com Odenton, AA Co., MD (Right in the heart of the future town center) ===== "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware--joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." --Henry Miller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================