Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:46:16 -0500 Reply-To: Dave Perry Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dave Perry Subject: Woodcock Survey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I did the first of Patuxent Research Refuge's American Woodcock surveys = tonight at the North Tract of the refuge. The route was a 4 mile route with 12 stops between 6:07 and 6:42 pm, = (approx. 2 mins. per stop). Am. Woodcock were heard at 10 of the 12 stops, either peenting or in = flight with a total count of 19. Additional pleasures included: hearing chorus frogs and spring peepers = calling, a great horned owl calling, two killdeer calling out in alarm = at one site, seeing bats flying around at 3 sites, and several deer. Dave Perry Crofton, Md perry59@gateway.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================