The Hooper's Island Collared Doves seem to have moved a couple of
blocks north from the original location (House #2363).
	Yesterday, a tip from Winger West let me know to look for the birds
at Houses #2542 and 2546, and that is where they were.  They made themselves
evident by cooing incessantly. At one point they nestled together on top of
a power pole beside house #2542.  Later they flew into some of the trees
behind house #2546.  I missed them on the southward drive-by, but on my
return I stopped in that region and walked along the road, listening for
them.  Their cooing led me to their location; I probably would not have
found them without it.  At one point, while atop the power pole, they also
made a kind of squawking sound that one might think was a parrot, but most
of the time the cooing was the vocalization of choice.

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601


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From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Edward Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] TROPICAL KINGBIRD, Somerset County: YES 1/3/07


Greetings All,
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After leaving the kingbird, I swung by Blackwater NWR where I drove the
wildlife loop and found about 25 adult White Pelicans at their usual spot
near the far end of the drive. From there I headed to Hooper's 
Island in hopes of finding the Collared-Doves there. Other than a sapsucker
and a flock of Brown-headed Nuthatches in the pine trees across from the
pole and mailbox in front of 2343 that was mentioned in a post about a month
ago, there wasn't much to be found at midday. I did find a pair of doves
but, unfortunately, they turned out to be of the Mourning variety up the
road near the original spot for these birds.

Ed Boyd


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