Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:18:41 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: FT McHenry Big Sit (10/12) Comments: cc: Wendy Taparanskas , Jim Peters Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Star-spangled Birders tallied 62 species during The Big Sit Sunday. Team Captain Jim Peters and I started at 5 a.m. and stayed until 6 p.m. We were joined by Wendy Taparanskas at 9:20a.m., Cathy Carroll and Mary Chetelat at 10:30 a.m. and Gail Frantz at 12:00 p.m. Highlights: An Eastern Meadowlark came in early and flew around for twenty minutes. A female Indigo Bunting did not show herself until late afternoon. We searched for a CAPE MAY WARBLER for two hours before adding it to the Sit List (go Cathy!). Six warbler species: MAGNOLIA WARBLER, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, [EASTERN] PALM WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and AMERICAN REDSTART. Five Sparrows: Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow and Song Sparrow. A very nice day after all. Birds (in chronological order): Mallard (5:00 a) Canada Goose (5:10 a) Black-crowned Night-Heron (5:26) Killdeer (5:30 a) Northern Mockingbird (5:55 a) White-throated Sparrow (5:58 a) Song Sparrow (6:41 a) Marsh Wren (6:44 a) Eastern Towhee (6:51 a) Belted Kingfisher (6:51 a) Mourning Dove (6:52 a) House Wren (6:59 a) American Robin (7:00 a) Eastern Phoebe (7:02 a) Ring-billed Gull (7:03 a) Laughing Gull (7:06 a) Golden-crowned Kinglet (7:06 a) Great Blue Heron (7:08 a) Chimney Swift (7:08 a) Double-crested Cormorant (7:09 a) Red-winged Blackbird (7:10 a) Great Black-backed Gull (7:11 a) Herring Gull (7:14 a) European Starling (7:14 a) Eastern Meadowlark (7:15 a) American Kestrel (7:24 a) Swamp Sparrow (7:28 a) House Sparrow (7:35 a) House Finch (7:45 a) Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker (7:45 a) Common Grackle (7:46 a) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (7:55 a) Common Yellowthroat (8:00 a) American Goldfinch (8:01 a) Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler (8:05 a) Blue Jay (8:14 a) American Crow (8:16 a) Rock Dove (8:25 a) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (8:25 a) Brown-headed Cowbird (8:45 a) Dark-eyed Junco (8:46 a) Sharp-shinned Hawk (8:59 a) Broad-winged Hawk (9:00 a) Chipping Sparrow (9:06 a) Palm Warbler (9:21 a) Gray Catbird (9:23 a) Osprey (9:29 a) Forster's Tern (9:30 a) Peregrine Falcon (10:00 a) Turkey Vulture (10:30 a) Magnolia Warbler (10:30 a) American Redstart (10:31 a) Cooper's Hawk (10:55 a) Northern Rough-winged Swallow (11:00 a) Hermit Thrush (11:00 a) Cape May Warbler (11:10 a) Bald Eagle (11:40 a) Field Sparrow (12:30 p) Red-shouldered Hawk (1:30 p) Spotted Sandpiper (2:25 p) Northern Cardinal (3:15 p) Indigo Bunting (3:59 p) Keith Eric Costley oriolekec1@comcast.net Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================