--part1_9558357a.2517fe8c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_9558357a.2517fe8c_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <74077.3176@compuserve.com> Received: from rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (rly-zc01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.1]) by air-zc01.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:55:08 -0400 Received: from spdmgaaa.compuserve.com (ds-img-1.compuserve.com [149.174.206.134]) by rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:55:03 -0400 Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by spdmgaaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.6) id HAA08691 for miliff@aol.com; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:55:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:52:22 -0400 From: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@compuserve.com> Subject: Yellow-headed Blackbird Sender: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@compuserve.com> To: Marshall Iliff <miliff@aol.com> Message-ID: <199909200754_MC2-8582-6B05@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline --------------- Forwarded Message --------------- From: Henry Armistead, 74077,3176 To: Alice Jones, internet:ajones@talb.lib.md.us Date: Sun, Sep 19, 1999, 21:37 Subject: Yellow-headed Blackbird Hi, Alice. Paul Spitzer found an ad. male Yellow-headed Blackbird on Hooper's I., Sat., Sep. 18. It was all the way at the n. end of Meekins Neck Rd. where the road runs into the Bay, past a chain across the road c. 100 yards, with a flock of cowbirds feeding in the sorghum. If anyone goes there it might be good to ask at the farm house nearby down the side road to the east (we didn't). It was a new MD bird for me. The list for the day also included an Am. Bittern at Hooper's (also by Paul), 8 Brown Pelicans, 35 Bald Eagles, an ad. male Merlin e. of Transquaking R. (quite early for a "blue jack"), 10 Am. Golden Plovers at Blackwater (w. end of Pool 5A, or whatever the pool is at the end of Wildlife Dr.), 7 screech and 13 horned owls here and there, a sapsucker on Hooper's plus 3 Cliff Swallows, 7 RB Nuts, 70 waxwings, and (curiously) only 2 Common Grackles. I birded 5:30 AM-7:45 PM: 6-11:30 AM at Hooper's (with Paul), noonish-3 at Blackwater, 4-7:45 at Elliott I. Last species of the day (#131) were 2 Whip-poor-wills calling at Elliott I. Rd. n. of Savanna Lake., as if it were spring. In this respect frogs, mostly Green and S. Leopard, were abundant and so loud as to drown out the birds in the early A.M., incl. 2 Carpenter Frogs at Blackwater (Gum Swamp tract, "area D"). Tides were below normal mostly. It was a beautiful day and as strenuous as the May marathons I do here but 14.25 hrs. instead of 20. We saw 14 warbler spp. on Hooper's, not great numbers but pretty good variety. On Sun., Sept. 19, the Blackwater bird walk was lackluster except that the Baccharis bushes along Wildlife Dr. were loaded with several hundred Buckeyes and also quite a few Monarchs and Viceroys. At my family place I saw a nighthawk divebomb a juvenile harrier late that afternoon (!) and a Black Tern out over the Choptank. Liz saw 2 ad. plus 2 juvenile Red-headed Woodpeckers on Sat. in the area we logged 3 years ago (the big logged area west of Anderby Hall Road ... anyone is welcome to look for them here; I think they bred here this summer). We lost 6-7 trees in our yard due to Floyd. I'd love to hear if anyone saw any birds displaced by the storm. Liz & I will be camping at Kiptopeke State Park (Cape Charles) Oct. 2-11 and would love to have company.-Harry Armistead. --part1_9558357a.2517fe8c_boundary--