Baltimore RBA
August 24, 2001
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:57:24 -0400
Reply-To: Peter Lev <plev@HOME.COM>
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From: Peter Lev <plev@HOME.COM>
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Subject: [BIRDEAST] Baltimore Birdline, 8/24/01
Comments: To: jrmcdaniel@home.com, vdjones@home.com, tross@bcpl.net
To: BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
HOTLINE: Baltimore Bird Club Birdline
DATE: 24 Aug 2001
COVERAGE: MD/DC/DE/PA/VA
Compiled by Pete Webb (pwebb@bcpl.net)
and posted by Peter Lev (plev@home.com)
While there has yet to be a documented sighting of a
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE in Maryland, it's just a matter of time.
A pair is now residing just across the state line in Delaware
(Route 54 and Williams Road in Selbyville) and another was seen
outside Little Creek on Route 9 a few miles south of Bombay Hook
NWR. With documented sightings also in Virginia, our state is
bracketed and overdue for a documented sighting.
Sightings of a MISSISSIPPI KITE were made in Bowie 9 am and at
Schoolhouse Pond in Prince George's County, both on Tuesday.
BLACK TERNS have been sighted a number of places, with the largest
numbers being around the Potomac River near Jones Point in D.C. and
near Hunting Creek, VA; the birds were mostly over floating mats of
hydrilla vegetation. Over 85 were seen Monday and smaller numbers
persisted on Wednesday.
Two RUFFS or REEVES (female Ruffs) were seen Saturday at a pond off
Route 309 a few miles from Central Sod Farms on John Brown Road
off Rt 301 in Queen Anne's County. One of them flew over the heads
of the observers evidently headed for Central Sod Farms where two
cinnamon-colored RUFFS were reported a couple of weeks earlier; however,
further searches by observers at both sites later were not fruitful.
These two birds may have been the male RUFFS reported earlier and
molted into winter plumage, or may have been females as reported.
The Rt 309 pond is on private property and may be viewed from the road
shoulder only, no tresspassing.
A small boat pelagic trip Monday the 20th produced only a few
AUDUBON'S and CORY'S SHEARWATERS and a few WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS,
no unexpected or rare birds.
Migration arrivals & departures are picking up now:
LAUGHING GULLS are migrating, with birds being sighted flying over
various sites in Howard County where they only occur as fly-by migrants.
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS have also been sighted migrating, and the
fall's first migrant CAPE MAY and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS have
been reported. Isolated sightings of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES
have surfaced in Western Maryland, in a Talbot County yard on the
Eastern Shore, and in another yard in St. Mary's County in southern
Maryland. Keep your eyes open for those early migrants!
For upcoming field trips, check the Baltimore Bird Club Home Page, at
http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/baltbird.html, and the Maryland
Ornithological
Society schedule page at http://www.MDBirds.org/activities/schedule/.
For the latest Maryland sightings, consult the Maryland Osprey page at
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/mdosprey.html.
Pete Webb pwebb@bcpl.net (home), pew@niroinc.com (work)
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