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very birdy Lake Elkhorn

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Steve Schwemmer

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Steve Schwemmer

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Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:03:54 -0700

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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