Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:45:11 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Hughes Hollow Wednesday morning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I was out that way yesterday AM so stopped by to look for the coot. Didn't see any unusual ones, just 3 "normal" ones. Lots of Green-winged Teal, many Blue-winged Teal, a smattering of Ring-necked Ducks and a lone Pied-billed Grebe. A pair of Wood Ducks and a pair of A. Black Ducks flew by, and a pair of Mallards were with the teals. Lots of Yellow-rumps were moving through and a single Swamp Sparrow was seen. This morning I went up to Greenbridge Rd. to see if I could find a Pine Warbler. I took 2 steps towards the water after leaving my van when I heard one sing (from the pines!) and walked back up the road to locate it. I heard it singing and it was obviously moving around, but the light wasn't good. I spished a bit and a bird flew into the roadside trees very close to me. It was indeed a very handsome male Pine Warbler, who obligingly perched very near, turned around, hopped up a bit and then sang for me before flying across the road to the deciduous woods. Lots of Common Mergs on the water but not much else. Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================