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Blue Mash, 10/12

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Clive Harris

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Clive Harris

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Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:08:24 -0700

I spent a couple of hours at the Blue Mash Nature Trail this morning.  I had nice looks at a Lincoln's Sparrow just past where the pond is (the only one with water in it at present).  I also had a RB Nuthatch in with a chickadee flock.  I have been out of the country or busy a lot recently so this was the first one I've seen of this Fall's influx.
   
  The pond had about 15 Green-winged Teal which I managed to flush, unfortunately, and a slightly smaller number of Mallard.  A juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk was harrassed a number of times by a group of Blue Jays.  That and several Red-tailed Hawk were the total of the raptors (except the vultures, if you count them in that category).
   
  Sparrow diversity was not as good as I had thought it might be - Song, Swamp, quite a few Field, a few White-throated, some obliging Towhee, a single Savannah and the aforementioned Lincoln's.  Warblers were just Magnolia and Yellow-rumped.  But it was windy and quite a few small birds got away un-ID'd as they flushed; it proved very hard to track them down with the leaves blowing around so much.
   
  Good birding
   
  Clive Harris
  Cabin John, MD