Moorhen was still at Oxbow on Tuesday at 11:30.
Easy pickings for us. We arrived and first ran into Dan Haas on his way out. He had missed the bird but showed us a great picture he had taken of it some days before. He pointed us in the direction of the stakeout and when we arrived Kye Jenkins from Phoenix had spotted the bird and a few minutes later we all had good looks through his scope. Thanks Kye!
Tom & Sharon Bradford
Millersville
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There are 11 messages totaling 528 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Fwd: [MDOSPREY] Nashville in Garrett Co. (or West Virginia) ?
2. Allegany County, 5/21
3. 5/24 Cromwell Valley Park etc.
4. Rock Creek Park, Monday, 5/24
5. Moorhen @ Hughes Hollow(Mont Co)
6. Backyard Nesters
7. Moorhen@Hughes Hollow
8. Yard bird
9. New yard bird!
10. Eastern Shore Highlights, Sunday 23 May
11. Hart-Miller Island, 05/24/10
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 03:25:46 -0700
rom: Karen harris <>
ubject: Fwd: [MDOSPREY] Nashville in Garrett Co. (or West Virginia) ?
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Karen harris <>
ate: May 23, 2010 7:23:17 PM EDT
o: Leo Weigant <>
ubject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Nashville in Garrett Co. (or West Virginia) ?
took a look at the Google map and it looks like our NAWA straddled the MD/WV
ine, going from one state to the other. Also, it looks like the "John Deere"
ign was placed atop the regular street sign of Lakeford. We had another very
rief look at a NAWA at Swallow Falls, but it was high. The bird was singing,
ut I could only just verify what it was. Unfotunately, we did not hear the one
t Cranesville Swamp.
Karen Harris
albot Co, MD
Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Leo Weigant <> wrote:
Nashville warblers have been more or less regular in
that area for some time -- no one seems to have mentioned
the need to be extra careful with county sighting claims
. . .or state claims for that matter, when in that area.
i.e., the state line runs right down Muddy Creek Road.
I have only my quaint DeLorme Atlas which indicates that when
you turn on Muddy Creek Rd. from Cranesville Swamp Rd.
you're in West Virginia when you swing left after a few
hundred yards. The Nashvilles have traditionally been
in swampy areas on the left (MD) side of the road .
Cranesville Swamp Preserve itself is apparently in Maryland
but the line is very close and unmarked.
Of course, if you have the right kind of GPS tool
you should be OK,
but then,
isn't it time you started on your WV list, anyway?
Leo Weigant
n May 23, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Tim Boucher wrote:
Hey
Last weekend we had a Nashville Warbler at TNC's Cranesville Swamp reserve. We
ound it at the far side of the board walk (10am-ish). It was definitely on a
erritory, and circled around us, calling (so please don't use playback). Many
imes it was calling at the top of a conifer. Learn the call before you go and
ou should find it.
Cheers
im Boucher
ethesda, MD
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:29:40 -0400
rom: JB Churchill <>
ubject: Re: Allegany County, 5/21
> (No Henslow's Sparrows detected - do they still nest here? The habitat
looks different than when I was last here.)
I haven't been out there since 5/8 and I missed them there late
fternoon on the May Count but I think it was because it was too windy
the habitat looked ok to me then). A couple days prior to that I was
here at night and they were singing like mad so I suspect they are
ine unless something else has changed.
BTW - I was at Dan's Rock yesterday and had Ruffed Grouse drumming
rom two separate locations both of which were up near the towers. The
irst one was near the first tower as you get up to the top and the
ther was at the last tower if you were to continue straight back past
he parking area so there is no way I was hearing the same individual.
also had Ceruleans at 3 spots further down Dan's Rock Road, a
hestnut-sided Warbler, and several American Redstarts (all between
the patch" and the end of the woods at the top). I had another
erulean over at Dan's Mountain SP as well as a Black-throated Green
arbler (singing from the same spot where I found a nest during the
tlas period), and one each - Yellow-throated and Blue-headed Vireos.
--
ohn B. Churchill
rostburg, MD
ttp://www.westernmdbirding.com/
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:42:28 -0400
rom: Alex Coffey <>
ubject: 5/24 Cromwell Valley Park etc.
Hey all,
I don't post to the list often (or ever), but I've been subscribed to
he list since I moved down here for college, so I figured it's high
ime I start. If anyone in the Towson area knows local spots beyond
romwell Valley or wants to bird, get ahold of me.
Cromwell Valley Park, 5/24 (and a few on 5/16 only):
ourning Dove
orthern Flicker
astern Wood-Pewee
mpidonax sp.
astern Phoebe (5/16)
astern Kingbird
arbling Vireo
ireo sp. (heard, and it's been a while since I reviewed those paired notes)
lue Jay
urple Martin (5/16)
orthern Rough-winged Swallow
ree Swallow
arn Swallow
arolina Chickadee
arolina Wren
astern Bluebird
merican Robin
orthern Mockingbird
uropean Starling
edar Waxwing
ellow Warbler (5/16)
hestnut-sided Warbler
agnolia Warbler (5/16, males)
lack-and-white Warbler
merican Redstart (5/16, female-types)
ommon Yellowthroat
orthern Cardinal
lue Grosbeak (5/16, 1st year male)
ong Sparrow
hipping Sparrow
rown-headed Cowbird
ed-winged Blackbird (5/16)
ommon Grackle
altimore Oriole
rchard Oriole (adult males, 1st year male)
merican Goldfinch
Poplar Hill Rd, 5/24:
eard a rumor about Hooded Warblers being found here - any truth to
hat? I don't know if I was in the right place though - right near the
ntersection of Warren Rd? Any locals e-mail me off-list if you know
he spot I should be going to.
Blue Jay
merican Robin
ood Thrush
venbird (LOTS calling)
orthern Parula (heard, singing alternate song, REALLY threw me off
ntil I got home and listened to some audio files - see xeno-canto
song (B)")
carlet Tanager (male)
ommon Grackle (flyovers)
ALSO, there's one location I found 2 years ago while driving around
orth of Cromwell Valley Rd - Notchcliff Rd off of Glen Arm Rd? It is
00% reliable for Wood Thrush if anyone is looking (just drive up the
ill with your windows open and you'll hear them).
Notchcliff Rd, 5/16:
ouisiana Waterthrush (right at road entrance - there's a spot to pull over)
ood Thrush
Good birding,
-Alex Coffey
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:45:33 -0400
rom: Wallace Kornack <>
ubject: Rock Creek Park, Monday, 5/24
This morning (5/24) mainly in the Maintenance Yard of Rock Creek Park...
American Redstart
venbird heard
ommon Yellowthroat
ndigo Bunting 2
altimore Oriole
ed-eyed Vireo
carlet Tanager 2
astern Towhee
ood Thrush 2
wainson's Thrush
cadian Flycatcher heard
arolina Chickadee
astern Wood-Pewee
Observers: Jim Lemert, Mardi Hastings
Have Fun Birding!
Wallace Kornack
ashington DC
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:52:15 -0400
rom: Paul Woodward <>
ubject: Moorhen @ Hughes Hollow(Mont Co)
May 23
The rain yesterday raised the water level in the impoundments so
here is more open water visible. I found a Common Moorhen in one of the
nlarged open areas near the SW corner of the large impoundment. I didn't
ind it at first light, but on my return about 5 hours later it was quite
isible swimming around, but before I left it flew a short distance away
mong the aquatic vegetation and I lost sight of it.
Also there was a family of Hooded Mergansers feeding in the area- a
emale with 6 young.
Paul Woodward
airfax City, VA
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:48:43 -0400
rom: Claire Nemes <>
ubject: Backyard Nesters
Hi all,
This may not be of interest to anyone but myself, but this afternoon I
iscovered a blue-gray gnatcatcher's nest in the black locust in our
ackyard--it's way high up there so I can only see it from below, but cool
onetheless! I'd suspected for a while that this pair might be breeding here, as
hey fuss at me tirelessly whenever I go stand out on the deck. That brings the
otal of birds I've observed nesting in our yard this season to four: American
obin (still in the construction phase), mourning dove (currently sitting on the
est) and tufted titmice (recently fledged) were the others. The titmice made a
est in a crack in the same black locust, and I've now been seeing the young
irds at the feeders and fluttering around awkwardly in the trees. Cute!
Claire Nemes
ockville, MD
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:36:27 -0400
rom: Paul Woodward <>
ubject: Re: Moorhen@Hughes Hollow
I was bad. Saw the bird today (5-24) not 5-23.
Paul Woodward
airfax City, VA
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:17:54 -0400
rom: Rick Sussman <>
ubject: Yard bird
Afternoon all,
Not too much of note around lately, but thought I should mention that we've
een enjoying a beautiful male Indigo Bunting at our feeders, daily, since
round May 13, when I first noticed him on the ground below the black oil
eeder. Now he comes and sits on the feeder with House Finches, but is often
ullied off by Red-winged Blackbirds or squirrels. Still, when I catch a glimpse
f him in the late afternoon sun, pretty spectacular! Still hosting a pair of
rown Thrashers too, and the bluebirds and Tree Swallows are still nesting.
Rick Sussman
oodbine,MD
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 20:38:14 -0400
rom: Rick Sussman <>
ubject: New yard bird!
Evening all,
When I walked the yard this morning, I kept hearing a high pitched song, of
orts, that I thought might be Blackpoll Warbler. I didn't have my hearing aid
n so could not tell the location of the singer, but I scanned the trees to no
vail. Then when I found nothing moving in the trees, I walked on, forgetting
bout it until this evening. Before dinner Alli and I were walking in the back
ooking for a large black snake I had seen earlier, when I again heard that
trange song, a dry insect-like trill. I asked Alli to listen and then she asked
e what that noise was. It was the same noise I had been hearing this morning.
ow we were both hearing it, and because she has better hearing than I, she
inpointed the location. It was coming from the tall grass field of my neighbors
arm (his hay field). Well, since it was coming from the field, my first thought
as perhaps it was a Grasshopper Sparrow, a bird I have long thought should be
ere, at least in migration. Alli tried to find the song on her phone, but that
idn't pan out, so we came in and listened to the song on an Ipod, and she
onfirmed it.
Finally, after putting together a portable Ipod/speaker device, I went back out
ust before dark and played the song. I immedietly got a response, as I saw a
ird fly in very close, and land just outside our fence between the fence and
he weeds that seperate our yard from the field. After a bit more playing, the
ird made several moves, each time just out of sight. Finally it flew into a
mall tree in the corner, where I managed to get good (though somewhat dim from
he failing light) views of it before it took off for the field adjacent to our
ide yard. I hope it stays through tomorrow so Alli can get a look at it too.
ard bird # 128, Grasshopper Sparrow!
Rick Sussman
oodbine,MD
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:39:40 -0400
rom: Mikey Lutmerding <>
ubject: Eastern Shore Highlights, Sunday 23 May
Hi All,
I spent Yesterday birding on the Eastern Shore with Chris Milensky, Peter
senton, and Dave Ziolokowski. Some of the highlights from the day were-
2 LEAST BITTERNs on a nest at Truitts Landing, Dave first spotted the birds
as they flew to the nest location we were able to get excellent looks at
he birds, we also located 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER among the many
EMIPLAMATED SANDPIPERS on the mudflats there. At Castaways Campground, we
aw 2 flocks of RED KNOTS totaling ~25 birds flying north, 1 PIPING PLOVER
n Assateague, and 2 BLACK SKIMMERS roosting on the sandflats. Skimmer
sland had a decent number of COMMON and ROYAL TERNS, 3 BLACK SKIMMERs
oosting, and 4 RED KNOTs foraging on the flats. Ocean City Inlet still
osted a single female COMMON EIDER, a male SURF SCOTER, and numerous PURPLE
ANDPIPERS. We stopped along Old Railroad Road to see the hybrid sandpiper
hat Jim Stasz had found earlier, and that Jim Brighton had posted about, it
ertainly was an awesome bird! Our last stop of the day was at Hurlock STP;
im Brighton always says all you need to do to find phalaropes is go to
urlock during a storm, we did just that and located 3 RED-NECKED PHALAROPEs
anging out on the water. A nice day to be out!
Photos of the phalaropes and hybrid sandpiper can be seen at-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Good Birding!
ikey Lutmerding
room, MD
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 19:36:11 -0700
rom: Kevin Graff <>
ubject: Hart-Miller Island, 05/24/10
Observations at Hart-Miller Island
ay 24, 2010
705 - 1505
eather: Drizzle/PC, 65-75 degrees, SE 2K- ESE 3K, Gust to 12
bservers: Barbara Gearhart, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Mike Welch
SPECIES OF NOTE
Canada Goose - 63 (several goslings)
ute Swan - 3
ood Duck - 43 (few ducklings)
adwall - 4
merican Wigeon - 1 (drake)
merican Black Duck - 8
allard - 87 (quite a few ducklings)
lue-winged Teal - 1
reen-winged Teal - 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
reater Scaup - 1
esser Scaup - 8
uddy Duck - 51
ommon Loon - 1
ied-billed Grebe - 38
ouble-crested Cormorant - 19
LEAST BITTERN - 1
reat Blue Heron - 11
reat Egret - 4
nowy Egret - 6
lossy Ibis - 1
sprey - 8
eregrine Falcon - 1
merican Coot - 3
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 249 (248 arrive in pm)
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 14
illdeer - 10
BLACK-NECKED STILT - 16
SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 385
LEAST SANDPIPER - 3
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
DUNLIN - 37
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4
LAUGHING GULL - 2
ing-billed Gull - 42
erring Gull - 15
reat Black-backed Gull - 7
east Tern - 15
aspian Tern - 245
orster's Tern - 2
ourning Dove - 1
ellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
himney Swift - 1
uby-throated Hummingbird - 2
illow Flycatcher - 2
astern Kingbird - 8
ish Crow - 1
urple Martin - 4
ree Swallow - 49
ank Swallow - 10
arn Swallow - 52
arolina Chickadee - 1
arsh Wren - 3
merican Robin - 1
ray Catbird - 6
rown Thrasher - 1
uropean Starling - 4
edar Waxwing - 11
ellow Warbler - 8
lack-throated Green Warbler - 1
merican Redstart - 1
ommon Yellowthroat - 30
ong Sparrow - 6
wamp Sparrow - 5
orthern Cardinal - 1
lue Grosbeak - 2
ed-winged Blackbird - 85
ommon Grackle - 5
rown-headed Cowbird - 15
rchard Oriole - 8
ouse Finch - 6
merican Goldfinch - 14
PECIES: 74
NDIVIDUALS: 1774
MAMMALS
ed Fox - 2
REPTILES
orthern Water Snake - 1
napping Turtle - 1
BUTTERFLIES
abbage White - 20
range Sulphur - 1
louded Sulphur - 1
ed Admiral - 1
onarch - 1
east Skipper - 1
5/17/10 - 315pm-330pm
ES Landbase, Riverview Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: PC, 75 degrees, E 4 mph
Mallard - 1
ouble-crested Cormorant - 1
reat Blue Heron - 1
urkey Vulture - 1
erring Gull - 2
aspian Tern - 1
ourning Dove - 1
astern Kingbird - 1
arn Swallow - 2
merican Robin - 2
uropean Starling - 1
orthern Cardinal - 1
ndigo Bunting - 1
ed-winged Blackbird - 2
ommon Grackle - 2
ouse Finch - 1
PECIES: 16
NDIVIDUALS: 21
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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