Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:46:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Spring sounds In-Reply-To: <20000209165546.24333.qmail@web1804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:55 AM 2/9/00 , you wrote: >After 3 days being tied to the bed due to >illness, I just couldn't stay in this morning >with that bright sun in the window. Not wanting >to go TOO far afield, I just opted for a walk >around the neighborhood, and it turned out to be >very nice. Hi Charlie, Sorry that you're ill. You must be feeling a bit better if you went looking for birds! The birdwalk on Saturday was, in a word, freezing. I was surprised to find eleven people had come for it. We had a hard time negotiating the railroad bed trail -- walking was tough and some of the people were up there in years. One woman already had a cast on her arm! Well, birding was very slow, so we concentrated on bird behavior instead. We didn't even make it to the end of the trail. They decided that rather than go on, they'd rather trek back to the Visitor's Center and then some of us carpooled over to the barn. When we got out of the wind (windchill was 13), we saw common residents but since the entire group were beginners, they enjoyed everything we found. I have to confess that I didn't keep a list because it would have been too pathetic -- sorry. One of the highlights was a fox hunting out on the ice viewed from the observation platform. We couldn't stay there long -- the wind was bitter there. Still, we all had an enjoyable time and I'm always willing to lead a walk. Enjoyed reading about your birds today. Arlene ////// | || aripley@nestbox.com | 0 || http://www.nestbox.com | || || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================