Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:48:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: Rusty Blackbirds, Halethorpe Pond MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stan, To add some perspective to your Rusty Blackbird report I found this in Maryland Birdlife (Vol. 4, #2): "Small groups of rusty blackbirds wintered at College Park (M. B. Meanley, W. H. Ball) and Patuxent Refuge (Stewart), and 10 were seen near Halethorpe on Feb. 1 by Hampe and Bowen; mid-winter records north of Washington are few." This was from the season report for January-February 1948. Bob Ringler (No, I did not write that season report.) ----- Original Message ----- > > Bill Hubick and I birded around the Halethorpe Pond (Balt. Co.) this > afternoon, and most notable of the avifauna was a flock of about 30 > Rusty Blackbirds between the pond and the Patapsco River. This wooded > stretch along the Patapsco between I-195 and I-695 has had late winter > Rusties for the past three years, but usually I don't see them until > March, and have seen them as late as May. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================