Kindly remove me from your email list. I have been inundated with your emails during the last several days. I do not want them!
Thank you,
Dorothy Dowling , hdowni @
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monroe Harden" < hardenm @ SPRYNET .COM>
To: MDOSPREY @ LSOFT .COM
Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 8:04:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [ MDOSPREY ] White-winged Crossbills - "Gunpowder Loop" & Druid Ridge
Steve Sanford wrote:
From about 2:00 to 2:30 we stopped at Druid Ridge Cemetery and were pretty
confident we heard one or two WW Crossbills , but didn't see them. Someone
else at the west end of the long row of hemlocks said he saw 3 while we were
by the east end.
And I reply:
I am that "someone else." I saw and photographed two females on the very
top of a hemlock about halfway between the west end of the tree row and the
intersection by the tall " Tunstall " monument stone. I was cued by an
unusual pipping sound, and I saw that the source of the sound was a small
yellow-ish breasted (with faint streaks) bird with bright, broad wing bars
on the tippy top of a tree. It was joined a moment later by a second. They
posed for photos for about a minute and then they flew off to the south. A
third unidentified bird joined them from within the tree as they flew away.
Jeff and Steve were out of sight to the east so I could not immediately
alert them. I hopped in my car and drove down and told them of my sighting
so that hopefully they could see the birds when they came back.
This was at about 2:30 PM yesterday, Saturday February 7th.
I'll have my photos posted in the near future.
Monroe Harden
Havre de Grace, MD
hardenm @ sprynet .com |