Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 22:36:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Milton Subject: C&O Mid-Winter Count MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Birders are needed on Sunday January 23rd to participate in the 2nd C&O Canal National Historical Park Mid-Winter Bird Survey. This event is sponsored by the Maryland-D.C. Audubon Council and the Maryland Ornithological Society. In the first survey last year on January 22, despite cold, rainy weather down river and ice and snow on the towpath upriver, 80 observers reported 89 species and tallied 14,411 individuals. 74% of the entire 184 miles was covered in the survey. Highlights from last year included 17 Eastern Phoebes, a flock of 156 Rusty Black birds, a Black-crowned Night Heron, a well-described Osprey and 136 Pileated Woodpeckers. The methodology used is based on the Christmas Bird Counts and Mid-Winter Bird Surveys for the state of Maryland and participants will be asked to complete one data sheet for each mile covered. We particularly need chickadee experts to cover miles 110 through 136 in Washington County. To volunteer, contact Peter Vankevich, preferably by email at pvank@cais.net or telephone at (202) 547-4523, or Mike Milton at 202 543-6672 or mikemilton@attglobal.net. All participants will receive the complete data report broken down mile by mile. ================================================================= To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ================================================================= =========================================================================