At 03:19 PM 3/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>    Signs of spring today in Carroll County:  the first Robin singing at 
> dawn this morning in our neighborhood and the first Killdeer of the year 
> flying over Westminster calling this afternoon.
>
>Bob Ringler
>Eldersburg MD
>

Bob,
         I heard a Killdeer calling at the Ag. Ctr./Farm Museum complex in 
Carroll County, on Wednesday night, about 9:30 PM, February 23rd, after a 
kennel club meeting. Sorry I didn't post. And this morning(3-08), in the 
falling snow, a Flicker landed near my feeder and was poking around in the 
ground right beside a Robin! Last night(3-07), just around dusk, I watched 
a Cooper's Hawk make three attempts at catching different birds through the 
woods and around my feeder, before he retired for the night, empty-beaked.


Sharon Schwemmer
Hampstead,MD