Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:45:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: St. Mary's yard birds, 10/14 Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Yesterday afternoon was so nice that Jane and I took some time out in the = backyard to watch the robins devouring the devil's walking stick berries. = In the few minutes we watched, there must have been about a dozen robins = on 2 plants. They pretty much decimated the berries by the end of their = stay. There was one bird that gave me a start. It was an immature robin = that made me think fieldfare for a second. Also in the yard were Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (2), Yellow-rumped (many), = Magnolia (1), Black-throated Blue (1), Black-throated Green, and Pine (2) = Warblers, many many Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, one Swainson's = Thrush, White-breasted Nuthatch (1) and a Red-breasted Nuthatch (1), and = one Junco. The usual suspects (chickadee, titmouse, blue jay, cardinal, = downy, red-belly, goldfinch) were about but we couldn't scare up any = White-throated Sparrows yet. I hope this is a good year for Red-breasted = Nuthatch as we didn't have any at all last winter. Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, Maryland Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues =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 =========================================================================