This morning I did a little birding in and around Baltimore.  The 
highlight of this trip was watching an adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT 
HERON fishing from the old concrete pier that is just south of the 
fishing pier at Fort Armistead Park.  The heron spent several long 
minutes perched inside one of the tractor tires hanging from the 
side of the pier.  Then it dipped down into the water, caught a 
fish, and flew up to the pier to swallow it.

Other highlights, at Southwest Area Park, were a male BLUE GROSBEAK 
on the loop trail, a young BROWN THRASHER (drinking from a puddle 
at the intersection of the two roads), and 10 GREAT EGRETS feeding 
in the pond to the right of the road to the boat ramp.

Elaine Hendricks
Greenbelt, MD  (PG County)



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