Neither of these sitings were in MD, but seemed interesting and odd to me;
thought I'd mention them just for fun.
This weekend, we took the Amtrak to NYC. Where the train crosses the
Susquehanna river, there are old bridge supports just downriver -- you can
look down on the tops, which support grass and trees but must be way over
50 feet above the water. Both going and coming back, I saw black-crowned
night herons perched on the supports (1 bird on the way up, 3 on the way
home). Were they hunting? Roosting? Thought it interesting to see them so
high above the water.
And, we were in Silver City, NM the last week of July -- Silver City is in the
south-west corner of the state at elevation of 6,000 feet. There were
several hummers buzzing the patio of our friend's home and I swear that 2 of
them were rufus hummers; there's nothing else in Sibleys so orange. Yet
Sibleys shows them as migrants that summer way up at the Canadian border.
They were only there 2 days, then didn't show up again. Early southerly
migrants? Signs that we're due for an early winter? Hmmm. |