Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:28:25 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joel Martin Subject: No Black-throated Gray Warbler 10/23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As chance would have it I had a meeting today (Thursday) in Salisbury, so of course when it ended I spent the rest of the day at Bayside Drive on Assateague. Apparently the BT Gray was a no-show today. When I arrived about 3:00 there were 2 kayakers camping at site 48, right under "the" tree, since the night before. They had seen a number of birders throughout the day, but as far as they knew, no one had seen the warbler. The wind was pretty strong and kept most everything down but the yellow-rumps. I worked most of the camping loops as well as I could before dark, finding a few Chipping, Field, Song, Swamp and WT Sparrows, a Hermit Thrush, and one western Palm and one female BTB Warbler, but nothing exotic. The highlights were a group of 5 PURPLE FINCHES, including 2 beautiful males, and a WILSON'S SNIPE that flushed from a tiny patch of wet scrub beside the road. Before dark I did a brief seawatch. No pelagic birds, but many scoter flocks moving south, some ID'd as Surf. Joel Martin Catonsville, MD jcdlmartin@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================