Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:13:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Patapsco Valley State Park - Granite Area (03-28) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Three first-of-the-year bird sightings highlighted my walk in Granite today= : a PINE WARBLER at last years nest site; hearing the song of the Brown Creeper and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher calling near an old nest site. Initially I thought the Creeper song was one of the Black-throated Green Warbler songs. While searching for a warbler I noticed that the Creeper paused each time I heard the song. Hey, wait a minute, maybe... I=B9m a little slow sometimes. The song was a high-pitched whistle but not as thin and frail as it=B9s call. =B3Weeee de-da de-da=B2 Let=B9s not forget the sparrows: I missed the Chipping Sparrow today; but enjoyed the songs of the Field, Song and White-throated. While crossing th= e bridge I was able to get a birds eye view of Fox, White-throated and Song a= s they foraged between the multi-flora rose. 14 Turkey Vulture 10 Canada Goose 10 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk=20 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 Ring-billed Gull 6 Mourning Dove 9 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 13 Northern Flicker 5 Pileated Woodpecker 15 Eastern Phoebe 6 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 15 Carolina Chickadee 13 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 4 Carolina Wren 7 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 52 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 2 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER 2 PINE WARBLER 1 Eastern Towhee 13 Field Sparrow 11 Fox Sparrow 22 Song Sparrow 23 White-throated Sparrow 24 Dark-eyed Junco 39 Northern Cardinal 6 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Common Grackle 16 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Finch 16 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow=20 Keith Eric Costley oriolekec1@comcast.net Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD =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 =========================================================================