Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:26:07 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Blue Mash, Montgomery County Comments: To: voice@audubonnaturalist.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Another morning trip to the Blue Mash nature trail proved interesting today, for a good variety of species were seen. New birds for me this spring were a flyover BARN SWALLOW (just one), a singing individual PALM WARBLER, many singing Brown Thrashers, and a single flyover Common Loon (though many were in OC last weekend, this was my 1st Mont. Cty. migrant). Other nice finds were a calling Pied-billed Grebe on the small pond, Ring-necked Ducks, Bufflehead, and a lone female Hooded Merganser on the big pond, as well as a flock of flyover Common Mergs. A single male Wood Duck was on the small pond with a pair of Black Ducks and Mallards, and 4 Tree Swallows were overhead. A flyover Wilson's Snipe must've flushed from the marshy area. Lots of singing Field Sparrows, White-throated, and Song Sparrows, and 3 Swamp Sparrows, 1 Fox Sparrow and a handful of Dark-eyed Juncos, plus many singing Eastern Towhees were found. Hawks seen were Cooper's and Red-tailed. A trip up Triadelphia Lake Rd. produced a Bald Eagle flying over the upper fields, a singing Eastern Meadowlark, Sharp-shinned Hawk, American Kestrel, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and a short stop to Greenbridge Rd. produced a Great-blue Heron and a singing Pine Warbler. A Red-shouldered Hawk was perched in a roadside tree along New Hampshire Ave. on my way home. Enjoy the day! 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================