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 
 



----- Original Message ----- 
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.