A midday hike today around Lake Elkhorn and the
adjoining trail toward Savage produced a nice variety
and lots of avian entertainment. The YC night-heron
stood watch next to the east bridge (1:00 PM) with a
green and a great blue in close proximity. A young
couple thought the YCNH might be a decoy until it
started to walk, reminding me of my first experience
with a flock of four in a backyard in Lochern.
Watched a dozen families of barn swallows feed there
young under a park shelter.
A great blue heron landed too close to shoreline
belonging to a red-winged black bird and was
dive-bombed repeatedly and then escorted to the other
shore.
After sitings of Acadian and great-crested flycatchers
on the Savage Mill trail, we were treated with loud
calls and close looks of a Cooper's hawk directly
above the bike path and also watched a YCNH fly the
length of the lake. It landed on a Brokenland Pkwy.
lamppost not far from the bike tunnel and then dropped
to cover in trees. Not bad for midday, mid-summer birding.
Steve Schwemmer
Catonsville, Maryland
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