GC SPARROW still present in dead pokeweed at 1:30. I was the last of 4 cars to leave. Very coopertive bird. 
 
Dave Palmer 
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From:         Nancy Martin <> 
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Date:         Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:59:20  
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Kent County Golden-crowned Sparrow present & Rough-legged Hawk continues 
 
Hi All, 
 
Nancy and I finally were able to go down to Chesapeake Farms to look for  
The Sparrow this morning. Several others were present on site when we  
arrived including Jim Green, Helen Patton, and Joe Hanfman. It took a  
bit of waiting but the bird showed up around 9:15 with four White-crowns  
and a White-throat next to the yellowed pokeweed in the hedgerow about  
50 to 100 feet south of the break in the honeysuckle hedge. I expect it  
may wander up and down the hedgerow quite a bit as it arrived from the  
south whence we first heard its calls. As Bill Hubick wrote the contact  
call note is distinctive. I'd place its quality somewhere between Swamp  
Sparrow and Hooded Warbler, musical, quick offset, not as weak and  
high-pitched as White-crown. 
 
The Rough-legged Hawk found by Jim Gruber on Sunday on Reese's Corner  
Road also continues. It's a light morph young female with light breast  
and head, dark belly, and a white tail with a broad dark terminal band.  
Joe Hanfman told us it was still there and Nancy and I saw it kiting and  
hovering north of the road at 9:45. The hawk is hunting a field just  
east of the sheep pastures at the west (MD-445) end of the road behind  
and around some big grain elevators on the north side. 
 
Good birding, 
 
Walter Ellison 
 
Observing Nature is like unwrapping a big pile of presents every time  
you take a walk.