Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:14:36 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Feeder Birds Today MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MDOspryers Birds that have been around the feeding station in my backyard for the first time this year (today) are: Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -peanut butter tree One Hermit Thrush - woods Four Rusty Blackbirds (three males, one female) - peanuts shelled One male House Sparrow - anything Plus the usual suspects. Keep feeding. George ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Ann Todd To: Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 6:43 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Gull escapes > Talk about gull escapes brings to mind the Silver Gulls at the National Zoo. > In the mid 1980s the zoo had a few dozen, kept in the outdoor flight cage. > Most of them had NO BANDS of any kind. On at least two occasions we found > unbanded Silver Gulls hanging with the Ring-bills and Laughers at Hains Pt > (Don't have the dates at hand.) The escaped Silvers would be around for a few > days or so, then disappear. Whether they died, or, more likely, adjusted and > moved on with the other gulls is unknown. We called the Zoo one time. They > were mildly surprised that one of their birds was missing (no head counts > each night at lockdown!), but they had no plans to try to get it back. > Have not been to that cage in several years. Don't know if the Silver Gulls > are still there. > > Dave > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ================================================================= ================================================================= To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ==========================================================================================================================================