Visited Conowingo dam this pm and walked downriver to Deer Creek to see the  
wild flowers - loads of Dutchman's britches, spring beauty, and Virginia  
primrose just coming out. Also trout lily, cut-leafed toothwhort
 
2 hermit thrushes, one singing: beautiful! - began with 1st two notes of a  
white-throated sparrow's song then into a veery-like series.
 
Bald eagle on, what another birder told me, was an ospreys' nest atop the  
pylon at the downstream end of Rowland Island, just below the dam.  He had  seen 
it eating something there earlier.  Two ospreys were now dive bombing  the 
eagle.  Minutes later the eagle left and the ospreys landed on the  pylon, but 
not on the nest.  Nest predation? - would the ospreys have eggs  or young by 
now?
 
No warblers!  
 
Robin Todd
Ellicott City
 



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