One used to nest by White Sands restaurant in Calvert, if memory serves.
sue hamilton
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From: James Tyler Bell <>
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Sent: Wed, June 2, 2010 3:44:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Charles County Nightjars, 5/30
Good luck finding a Baltimore Oriole in Calvert or St. Mary's counties either. They used to nest in far northern Calvert county at the end of Lower Marlboro Road and may still but they were difficult to find there a few years ago. To my knowledge, BAORs don't nest in St. Mary's at all and can only be found there as a migrant.
House Wrens are scattered in Calvert and St. Mary's, too. We had a pair nest in our yard (actually a hole that a woodpecker had pecked into the cedar siding in our house!) a couple of years ago but they didn't return last year or this year. There used to be a fairly reliable HOWR spot at Plum Point near a friend of ours' beach house. Otherwise, better to find them as migrants as well. Pt. Lookout, at the southern tip of St. Mary's, can be swimming with them in the fall.
Tyler Bell
California, Maryland
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From: Bob Ringler <>
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Sent: Wed, June 2, 2010 9:18:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Charles County Nightjars, 5/30
Joel,
It is no surprise that you missed House Wren and Baltimore Oriole. Check the Breeding Bird Atlas maps for those species in southern Charles County and you will see that they are very scarce as breeders in that part of the state.
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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From: "Joel Martin" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:54:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Charles County Nightjars, 5/30
After daybreak I spent the rest of the morning birding some of the many
quiet back roads of the Nanjemoy area, a region I'd never before visited. It
was very pleasant, birding such a wild and beautiful area without the
constant din of traffic. I spent over an hour on Rt. 224, a very birdy road which
I expected to be heavily travelled, and in that time exactly 2 cars went
by. There were good numbers of many of the breeding species, but others that
should have been easy such as House Wren and Baltimore Oriole were missed
completely.
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