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Adult male. Forages by searching for insects among foliage of trees and shrubs. Sometimes flies out to catch insects in midair. Visits flowers for nectar, and will come to sugar-water feeders; also will come to pieces of fruit put out at feeders.

Bluish white to pale gray, with brown and black markings concentrated at larger end. Incubation is by female, about days. Young: Both parents feed the nestlings. Young leave nest about days after hatching. Insects, berries, nectar. In summer feeds mostly on insects, especially caterpillars, including hairy types avoided by many birds; also eats beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, bugs, and others, plus spiders and snails.

Eats many berries and sometimes cultivated fruit. Feeds on nectar and will take sugar-water. Male sings to defend nesting territory. In courtship, male faces female and stretches upright, then bows deeply with tail spread and wings partly open. Nest site is in tall deciduous tree, placed near end of slender drooping branch, usually ' above the ground but can be ' up or higher.

Nest built by female, sometimes with help from male is a hanging pouch, with its rim firmly attached to a branch. There were a few diversions, too: At night, we headed uptown to try craft beers and swap tales of our exploits.

And on Sunday, some attendees traded birds for bats to take in a baseball game at Camden Yards. While the stadium is reliable for spotting Orioles, Fort McHenry is the best place to catch more exotic travelers. It juts into the Patapsco River, which curls out from the incredibly birdy Chesapeake Bay.

The monument ranks high on National Park Service birding lists with a count of species throughout the seasons. All told, the city hosts more than species during spring migration. That includes the Ospreys, Common Terns, and Spotted Sandpipers that Costley points out from our vantage spot on the seawall. But the Double-crested Cormorant flying past the abutting Lehigh Cement factory reminds me that birds aren't as delicate as we imagine.

In the background, he identifies the slurring song of the Warbling Vireo. And then. A male Blackburnian Warbler, more vibrant than any photo could capture, flashes through the leaves and steals our attention. Even Costley is impressed with the find. Based in a spacious tract of woodlands in Southeast Baltimore, PPAC serves as a hub for fusing community empowerment with bird conservation. Make a gift. How you can help, right now. Donate to Audubon Help secure the future for birds at risk from climate change, habitat loss and other threats.

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