On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Janet Ardam <> wrote:
> I have a place in Great Cacapon WV and just today discovered the Town Creek Aquaduct area.  I was not out at "prime time" but did see many Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers, heard a Yellow Warbler, a Parula, and 1 Common Raven. along with the usuals.  I imagine I might see about the same things described at the North Branch as where I was today.
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> Janet Ardam
> Gaithersburg and Great Cacapon
>

Hi Janet,

   I put a description of that area with maps etc. on my Western MD
Birding website.

http://www.westernmdbirding.com/allegany_sites.html

You would have similar stuff at North Branch to what you saw at Town
Creek Aquaduct except that there is also the shorebird tarps.  There
were 5 Greater Yellowlegs, some Killdeer and a Spotted Sandpiper there
today along with a number (5+) of White-crowned Sparrows on the Canal
(and a few Swamp, Song, Field Sparrows), and a pair of Blue-winged
Teal (a little further West on the Canal).  I had 2 or 3 Rusty
Blackbirds there this morning too and David Yeany told me that he had
a few Wilson's Snipe in the cow pasture and at the Canal before I got
there this morning.  He also had a few Ring-billed Gulls at the
shorebird tarps.  I see now that he already posted a bunch of that
stuff and more.

There were also Yellow-throated Warblers and Louisiana Waterthrush at
Spring Gap and a flyover Green Heron.

Best,

J.B.



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John B. Churchill
Frostburg, MD
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