Dear All, A few hours on the "Rails to Trails" section of Gunpowder Falls North of Baltimore yielded a few interesting birds: Canada Goose 3 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 3 Bald Eagle 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 5 Barred Owl 1 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 14 Downy Woodpecker 6 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Tree Swallow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 12 Fish Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 6 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 8 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 8 Northern Mockinird 7 European Starling 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Solitary Vireo 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Northern Parula 10 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Ovenbird 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 4 Northern Cardinal 20 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 30 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 18 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 14 The eagle was flying up the river, and was my first for this trail. The owl was resting comfortably in a tree, about 80 yards off the path but in plain view of many walkers, bikers, etc., which didn't seem to bother it one bit. Also, a red fox ran across the path twice in the morning's early hours. >From: Steve Sanford <tanager@bcpl.net> >Reply-To: mdosprey@ARI.Net >To: MD Osprey <MDOsprey@ARI.Net> >Subject: Warblers and marsh sparrows in southern MD >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:03:05 -0400 > >I took today off to enjoy the hoped-for influx of spring migrants. I >decided to head south based on the weather forecast and lured by the >report of marsh sparrows at Point Lookout. > >I was rewarded with 10 warbler species, the best of which was a >highly-visible Prothonotary at Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, and a Prairie >in a wax myrtle just north of the last parking area at Point Lookout. >The others were B&W (Severn Run), Redstart (Rt 382 at PG-Charles Co >line), Parula's all over the place (about 10 at the cypress swamp), >Ovenbirds, La Waterthrush (Cypress Swamp), Yellowthroats, Pine, and >Myrtle (almost none!). > >At Pt Lookout there were about 5 Seaside Sparrows, several Swamp >Sparrows, and 1 or two Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows (per Kyle Rambo >who was there and helping find the sparrows). Unfortunately I can't say >I got a good enough look at the Nelson's to feel I can add them to my Md >list. Kyle says they are pretty regular in migration in the marsh around >the ponds at the end of Pt Lookout. He also recommended the marsh around >the bridge at the end of Cornfield Harbor Dr (which is a southward turn >off Cornfield Harbor Rd which goes west off of Rt 5 about 2 miles north >of Pt Lookout Park. I went there later but a downpour started before I >could really bird it. > >Other goodies were a singing Wood Thrush, and a Winter Wren (both at BC >Cypress Swamp), a Hummer, a Chimney Swift, and a steel blue Merlin (all >at Pt Lookout). > >Some of you may know former Baltimore-birder Marty Cribb, who has spent >most of the last few years at Pt Lookout. He says he will be moving >permanently to Smith Island next winter (I think next winter) and he may >even have a phone and a computer to let us know what's going on in the >bird-realm there. > > > Steve Sanford > tanager@bcpl.net > Randallstown, Baltimore Co, MD > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com