I also had an unusual yard bird this morning. At 6:30 am, I was loading my
car for a trip. The sun was just beginning to turn the black of night to a
dull gray, further muffled by a heavy mist. As I walked to the street, I
smiled to hear a pre-dawn mourning dove, and some early robins. Then I heard
a sound that I just couldn't place. It was a metallic trilling sound. As the
volume increased I started looking around and saw a bird fly overhead. I
thought, "That's about the size of a woodcock." Then I thought, "That's
about the shape of a woodcock -- round heavy body, rounded wings..." By
golly, I think I saw a woodcock! Now my only question is "What a woodcock is
doing flying over our city neighborhood?" The bird didn't stay around long
enough for me to ask.
Don Burggraf
Baltimore
>From: Meghan Tice <>
>Reply-To: Meghan Tice <>
>To:
>Subject: [MDOSPREY] Unusual Yard Bird ~ Pasadena
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:58:58 -0500
>
>Reporting this for my mother, Wanda Tice:
>
>In Pasadena, Anne Arundel County, my mother had a new visitor to her yard
>today, which is fenced in and within a townhouse community. From
>somewhere, an AMERICAN PIPIT wandered into her yard and she looked outside
>at just the right time to catch notice of it. There was a male Junco in
>the yard that caught her attention first and then she saw the other larger,
>taller, sleek looking bird, faintly striped and pumping its tail (with pale
>outer feathers) quite rapidly. The Pipit walked around in some fallen
>leaves for a short while before taking off for sites unknown.
>
>P.S. The Purple Finches are still visiting the feeders here in Bowie.
>
>Thanks,
>Meghan Tice
>Bowie, Prince George's County
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