Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:13:16 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jason Waanders Subject: Warblers et al.--Hughes Hollow, C & O Canal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A long walk from Hughes Hollow and down the C & O Canal towpath to = Pennyfield Lock started slow but produced a few good birds today. The = best was a cooperative Wilson's warbler in a small willow on the right = of the main dike. Other warblers included chestnut-sided, black & = white, prothonotary, redstart, and yellowthroat. Good non-avian sightings today, too--a copperhead on the towpath gave me = a nice long look for as long and as close as I cared to. I also saw a = sleek black snake with white underneath the head (and maybe running down = the whole body--couldn't see), and a whitish-to-yellowish iris. It was = a bit over 2 feet long--longer than the copperhead, but thinner. I = don't know all my snake species--anyone know what this was? The cicadas around the impoundment at Hughes Hollow were interesting as = well. In the city I'm used to them staying high in the trees and = usually out of sight. The ones at the impoundment are much lower down = and less wary (perhaps a different species?), and a few times even = seemed to be buzzing at me intentionally, though maybe I'm just getting = paranoid and imagining that. Jason Waanders NW DC jwaanders@starpower.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================