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Soldier's Delight Summer Tanager & Happy Meal

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Steve Sanford

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Steve Sanford

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Tue, 16 May 2006 17:30:59 -0400

After yesterday's fallout, I had to return to Soldier's Delight today. 
The highlight was a Summer Tanager on the red trail about 1/2 mile in 
from the entrance by the south end of the Deer Park Road parking area. 
At first the tanager was where the red trail turns sharply left at a 
T-intersection, where other trails split off. Then it gradually moved 
back down the trail towards a marker with the number "2" on it. 
Presumably this is the same bird seen on Keith Costley's field trip on 
May 6. It was a male, singing constantly and easy to see.

Warblers were far less active than yesterday and mainly heard-only, 
but a good variety. (See below.) Most were in the office and Red Dog 
Lodge area. Also there was a Swainson's Thrush, which I forgot to 
mention was there and singing yesterday. I also forgot to mention that 
yesterday's Blackburnian Warbler was visibly singing a Magnolia 
Warbler song. I remember once seeing a Blackburnian Warbler singing a 
Black-throated Green Warbler song. So they are mimics on occasion.

But the biggest thrill of the day was at McDonald's on Liberty Road 
Marriottsville where I stopped for breakfast. There was a suspicious 
odd B&W Warbler-like sound in the corner, and it turned out to be just 
what I hoped: a beautiful CAPE MAY WARBLER in a little spruce tree, 
close-up and easy to see. This was only about the fifth spring male 
I've ever seen, with one of those being just last week at Milford 
Mill. Not bad! There was also a Blackpoll singing nearby.

The main species at Soldier's Delight were:

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe - ~4, mainly red trail
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow - going to boxes in field SE of Red Dog Lodge
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Chestnut-sided Warbler
[Cape May Warbler at McDonald's only]
Yellow-rumped Warbler - about 10
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler - mainly Red Dog Lodge, seen well and singing
Prairie Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Hooded Warbler - red trail
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat - heard from the Deer Park Rd parking area
SUMMER TANAGER - red trail, male
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - female
Indigo Bunting

Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD (Balto Co)
scartanATverizonDOTnet