A little history on this bird. I was out doing stream sampling and finished the two streams on SERC property. I usually leave out the back gate then turn onto Collins Road as there are a lot of brambles and a couple of open fields that are usually good for sparrows. I noticed a small bird fly into a sweet gum tree and when I found it, it was a goldfinch. But wait! What's this other bird perched on the dead limb just below it? Gray back, yellow belly, faint dark streak through the eye, pale throat. Tyrannus! Then it flew out and caught a bug and I could see the white outer tail feathers. It flew back into the original tree just above the white mailbox with 408 on it. Then it flew onto one of the dugouts out in the field then down into the grass then back up into a tree. I called a couple of people and got Dan Haas then had to leave to do my final stream down off of Cumberstone Road.

When I got back around 1:00, Dan was there but the bird was not. Then Chris Murray and Joe Hanfman arrived. I had to leave them to get back to the lab to process my samples. I hope they can find it. The habitat there is excellent with snags all around the field edges, hedge rows and open grassy areas. Naturally this is the one day that I went out without even the lab camera.

To get there, go east on 214 then turn right onto Muddy Creek Road. When you pass the sign to SERC (brown sign on the left) you'll go about 1/2 mile then turn left onto Collins Road. The white mailbox is about 100 feet on the right and the tree where I initially saw it is above it.
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland 




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From: Dan Haas <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:24:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Western Kingbird - Anne Arundel County

The bird is currently not being seen, but Tyler Bell found it this
afternoon, perched in the first dead tree snag on the right, after
turning on to Collins.

Dan

On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Joe Hanfman <> wrote:
> Dan Haas just called me and asked me to post that there is a Western Kingbird on Collins Rd off Muddy Creek Rd in Anne Arundel County. It is perched on a dead snag.
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