Hi all Warren Strobel's recent Posting about the Waxwings taking a Bath 
made Me want to post this Observation  from yesterday Sun Nov 14, 04 at the 
Cheaspeake Bay Enviromental Center in Grasonville Md in Queen Annes Co.   It 
was a windy  cold morning .  But nearing  the parking lot on the return walk 
from the north trail to the overlook  to the creek a flock of Yellow Rumped  
warblers were drinking and bathing in a rain puddle beside the path . lots 
of birds coming and going. At one point I saw a smaller bird  bathing near 
the path  I soon put the scope on it . It reveled its self to be a Ruby 
Crowned Kinglet. The First Time I have seen One Take a Bath.   a couple of 
Robins stopped by also . I watched For about 30 Min  as this show played out 
  before the Birds went back to feeding in the nearby pine trees and 
bayberries  bushes .
     waterfowl was about what Fred Fallon Posted .  On the path to  the 
tower overlooking Kent Narrows   in a Crab Apple  with lots of fruit were 
several  Cedar Waxwings in this same tree also 5 Brown Female type Purple 
Finch eating the fruit.  Several  Red Breasted Nuthatch also around . in 
Fact One Flew straight at me head high making me duck  as it looked like it 
might hit me.


Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown , Md