There may be more people than just me who would be interested in hearing what people
have to say about the Bird Songs Bible.

Suzanne  

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> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:22 -0400
> From: 
> Subject: MDOSPREY Digest - 27 Oct 2010 to 28 Oct 2010 (#2010-301)
> To: 
> 
> There are 9 messages totaling 314 lines in this issue.
> 
> Topics of the day:
> 
> 1. Do you have this and do you like it?
> 2. Wheaton Regional Park & Brookside Gardens today
> 3. Bird Blitz 2010: Catoctin Mountain
> 4. PINE SISKIN, Laurel
> 5. Laurel Monk Parakeets building nest
> 6. Franklin's Gull at Sandy Point
> 7. sandy point
> 8. Franklin's Gull; Siskins; Fox Sparrow (AA Co.)
> 9. Sharp-shinned Hawk in deceptive flight
> 
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> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:26:51 -0400
> From: Patricia Rose <>
> Subject: Do you have this and do you like it?
> 
> I am thinking about purchasing the Bird Songs Bible edited by Les 
> Beletsky with audio sounds from Cornell Lab. It has nearly 750 
> breeding birds of North America. Does anyone have or know anything 
> about this item?
> Please contact me at
> 
> 
> Happy Birding
> 
> Patricia Viola Rose
> 240-256-5423 cell
> 
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> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:58:03 -0400
> From: Gail Mackiernan <>
> Subject: Wheaton Regional Park & Brookside Gardens today
> 
> Hi all --
> 
> Traffic issues forced us to park at Brookside and walk through to Wheaton
> Park, but this proved to be a good thing as we picked up a couple of late
> migrants there. Otherwise rather slow, only expected birds of the season --
> most sparrows except Song have declined. Ran into a few flocks of Waxwings
> and 100s of Robins gorging on berries at the gardens. No hummers but we are
> still watching the pineapple sage!
> 
> Birds of interest:
> 
> Belted Kingfisher - 1
> Cooper's Hawk - 2
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
> Eastern Phoebe - 3
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10
> Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
> Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (heard only)
> GRAY CATBIRD - 1 (gardens)
> Cedar Waxwing - 50+
> Blue-headed Vireo - 1
> Myrtle Warbler - 2
> BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER - 1 (male)
> COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - 1 (adult female in gardens)
> Field Sparrow - 3
> Chipping Sparrow - 12 (major decline)
> White-throated Sparrow - 6 (also large decline)
> Song Sparrow - 20+
> Dark-eyed Junco - 10+
> Eastern Towhee - 6
> Common Grackle - 15
> 
> Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
> Colesville, MD
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:19:31 -0400
> From: David Yeany II <>
> Subject: Bird Blitz 2010: Catoctin Mountain
> 
> Hello Maryland Birders,
> 
> 
> For several years Bird Blitz has targeted Catoctin Mountain with breeding
> season surveys. These surveys have been driven by the need for data on
> Cerulean Warbler, a globally vulnerable species due to extensive loss of
> forested habitat rangewide. Bird Blitz survey results from 2010 at this
> site combined with previously collected data provide a clearer indication of
> the significance of this population. To read more about Bird Blitz 2010 at
> Catoctin Mountain, follow the link below:
> http://mddc.audubon.org/files/Audubon%20Maryland-DC/documents/CatoctinMountain2010Summary.pdf.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
> -- 
> David Yeany II
> IBA Program Coordinator
> Audubon MD-DC
> 2901 East Baltimore St., 2nd Floor
> Baltimore, MD 21224
> Phone: 814-221-4361
> Email: 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:20:31 -0400
> From: "Derek C. Richardson" <>
> Subject: PINE SISKIN, Laurel
> 
> Got home just now to discover a single PINE SISKIN at our 
> finch feeder in West Laurel, PG County (I was heading out to 
> refill the feeders). It's been a while (over a year) since 
> we have had one here. Nice!
> 
> D
> 
> -- 
> Derek C. Richardson, Laurel, PG County, MD
> http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/archives/photos/Birds/
> 
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> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:56:24 -0400
> From: Marcy Stutzman <>
> Subject: Laurel Monk Parakeets building nest
> 
> Jay Sheppard let me know today that the 3 Monk Parakeets were seen @ 4PM at the nest site they've been building on a cel tower in the right-of-way on Mt. Pleasant Drive near its intersection with Muirkirk Road in Laurel. Muirkirk Road connects Rte 197 in Laurel with Rte 1 in Beltsville.
> 
> The birds are building the nest on the first cel tower on the east side of Mt. Pleasant Drive on the north side of the tower (on your left as you face it) and about 20-30 feet off the ground (if I remember correctly). They had a few of what seemed to be false starts when I visited there in Sep.
> 
> In case you are intersted in checking out the nest and are using a map program, the nearest address is 12111 Mt. Pleasant Drive, Laurel 20708.
> 
> This area is in Jay's Bowie Christmas Count sector, so we're hoping they stick around.
> 
> Marcy
> 
> Marcy Stutzman
> Russett, MD
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:19:31 +0000
> From: Stan Arnold <>
> Subject: Re: Franklin's Gull at Sandy Point
> 
> Frgu still here off western most jetty sitting on water with lagu's at 5:05 pm.
> 
> 
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:06:53 -0700
> From: Kevin Graff <>
> Subject: Re: sandy point
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Earlier today I was with Leslie Starr and part of day with Dan Haas looking for the gull. Leslie wasn't sure about my sightings. It was farther out. But she thought she saw the bird before my arrival. 
> 
> At the south beach area with Leslie, I had a smaller gull compare to 50+ laughing gulls around with head tucked in. It does have half hood, large bold white eye ring visible, whitish hind neck compare to grey on laughing, small bill compare to many laughing's long bill with slight droop at tip and overall bit smaller than Laughing. Not seen afterward with few gulls that took flights. Later possible same bird on the bay to the SE, half blackish hood and small bill. 
> 
> 
> 
> Sandy Point State Park - 710am-945am
> 
> Canada Goose - 21
> Wood Duck - 3
> Mallard - 8
> Bufflehead - 2 (pair, north side)
> Double-crested Cormorant - 79
> Great Blue Heron - 2
> Black Vulture - 3
> Turkey Vulture - 4
> Bald Eagle - 1
> Sanderling - 2 (north side)
> Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (flew to the south)
> Laughing Gull - 53 (none had half blackish hood)
> FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (2nd cycle)
> Ring-billed Gull - 40
> Herring Gull - 39
> Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (adult)
> Great Black-backed Gull - 18
> Royal Tern - 2 (flew into south beach from the north before we left)
> Forster's Tern - 7
> Rock Pigeon - 4
> Mourning Dove - 5
> Downy Woodpecker - 1
> Eastern Phoebe - 1
> Blue Jay - 1
> American Crow - 4 (tower on overpass)
> Fish Crow - 9
> Tree Swallow - 12
> Carolina Chickadee - 2
> Tufted Titmouse - 3
> Marsh Wren - 1
> American Robin - 3
> Northern Mockingbird - 1
> European Starling - 95
> American Pipit - 1 (flyover, calling)
> Yellow-rumped Warbler - 14
> Song Sparrow - 3
> Northern Cardinal - 2
> Red-winged Blackbird - 12
> Common Grackle - 13
> Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
> House Finch - 11 (flyovers)
> Pine Siskin - 4 (flyover, over treetops)
> American Goldfinch - 16 (few flyovers)
> House Sparrow - 8 
> 44 species
> 
> 
> Kevin Graff
> Jarrettsville, MD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:26:53 -0400
> From: stanley arnold <>
> Subject: Franklin's Gull; Siskins; Fox Sparrow (AA Co.)
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I headed to Sandy Point State Park (AA Co.) after work this afternoon,
> arriving around 4 p.m. and hoping to capitalize on Bill Hubick's great
> find from yesterday. As I drove toward the park, the temp on my car
> thermometer read 79 degrees, so I rechecked my watch to see if it was
> really 28 October. The weather was so balmy at the park that I was
> pretty discouraged about finding anything. There wasn't a single gull
> on the beach, just a scattering out on the bay, and several swirling
> very high overhead, but there were plenty of people around enjoying
> the last taste of summer.
> 
> I hiked along the east beach that faces the Bay Bridge, and to the
> north, then cut through the woods to get to the north beach. After I
> came out of the woods I set up the scope and scanned the bay water to
> the north and west. Within about five minutes I was shocked to find a
> hooded gull by itself on the water. It looked good from about 300
> yards away, so I hiked out to the furthest jetty, cutting my distance
> to the bird in half, and then watched it for about 15 minutes as it
> slowly drifted toward me. The more I studied it, the better it
> looked, with its hood, pale neck and somewhat more nervous mannerisms
> compared to Laughing Gulls in the area. When two Laughing Gulls
> eventually drifted next to the bird, I was confident that I was
> looking at a FRANKLIN'S GULL, and continued to watch another few
> minutes until it flew, climbing in a very loose circle. I watched it
> in the scope for another few minutes as it climbed, hopeful that it
> would come my way, but it stayed out over the water eventually heading
> toward the Bay Bridge. I went back to the east beach hoping for
> another look, but did not see it again.
> 
> Also at Sandy Point--my first AM COOTs of the season, one standing on
> a wooden beam under a platform in the boat launch area, and the second
> seeming a bit out of place floating out on bay not far from where the
> FrGu was seen.
> 
> Back home, Elaine had a good day when SIX PINE SISKINs visited our
> feeders, first for the year. Another nice bird in the yard--a FOX
> SPARROW, first for the season.
> 
> Nice birds for such a beautiful day. And Mr. Hubick, let me know when
> you're heading over; I'll have your beer waiting for you.
> 
> Stan Arnold
> Ferndale
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:30:56 +0000
> From: Harry Armistead <>
> Subject: Sharp-shinned Hawk in deceptive flight
> 
> On October 27 Liz and I saw a Sharp-shinned Hawk in deep undulating flight, just as a flicker would fly, along Bellevue Road, Talbot County. At first we thought it WAS a flicker. We've seen Merlins in their occasional passerine-like flight, similar to the way shrikes fly. As with the Zone-tailed Hawk's appearance and flight similar to a Turkey Vulture I assume these deceptive, stealth flight techniques are designed to enable these raptors to sneak up on prey. Best to all. - Harry Armistead, Philadelphia. 
> 
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