Saturday birding
Norm Saunders (osprey@mtolympus.ari.net)
Sun, 26 Oct 1997 05:27:44 -0500
My goodness, it certainly got quiet on here all of a sudden. I hope
that means people are out watching birds!
Yesterday morning I wandered around Brookside Gardens and other parts
of Wheaton Regional Park. I was dismayed that one of my favorite
locations for wintering sapsuckers and migrant thrushes had been
leveled and replaced with a large building and even larger parking
lot. The paving of Eastern Montgomery County rolls on......
Nonetheless, I did have my first YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER of the Fall
season, a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH calling loudly in the parking lot of
the Nature Center, mass quantities of RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS all over
the park, ditto YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, and a very pleasant
mixed flock of sparrows, including at least 60 CHIPPING SPARROWS, 2
or 3 FIELD SPARROWS, about a dozen or so SONG SPARROWS, 20
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and a half-dozen or so DARK-EYED JUNCOS.
I hope the rest of you had equally or more productive days!
Cheers,
Norm
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net