Area is McKee-Beshers WMA in Montgomery Co.  BTW Yellow-crowned Night Herons 
are still in this area just more to the east where they have nested for the 
past several years.  I am going to take my last breeding bird count tomorrow 
along this path so I'll be on a bear watch.

Paul Woodward
Fairfax City, VA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Starling" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Bear tracks, Hunting Quarter Road


> please enighten us all; to which county are you reffering....
>
> ;-)
> chris s
> North East, Cecil County, Md
>
>
>>From: Philip Brody <>
>>Reply-To: Philip Brody <>
>>To: 
>>Subject: [MDOSPREY] Bear tracks, Hunting Quarter Road
>>Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:45:19 -0400
>>
>>There are black bear paw prints, unmistakable, in the mud on the Hunting
>>Quarter Road spur that leads past the pools where the Yellow-crowned Night
>>Herons were found earlier. The pools have dried up and the Night Herons 
>>are
>>gone. The paw prints are on the exposed mud flat. This is at the first 
>>parking
>>area down from the Hughes Hollow impoundment parking. Visible to any one
>>who wants to check it out. Otherwise at the Hughes Hollow impoundments
>>pretty much the summer usual. Nesting Baltimore Oriole feeding young on 
>>top
>>of a small tree off the right angle path past the first impoundment. Also
>>Orchard Oriole, the usual Tree Swallows, Kingbird, Green Heron, Redwing
>>Blackbirds, Indigo Buntings, goldfinches, Blue-gray gnatcatchers, and 
>>heard
>>House wren
>>
>>Phil Brody
>
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