Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:39:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Callahan Subject: There's No Place Like Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello fellow MDOSPREYers, This is actually Maryland Osprey story. Today 7th and 8th grade students from Matthew Henson Middle School's Environment Club helped put Osprey nesting platforms back out on Nanjemoy Creek. You should have hear how excited the teens got when they pulled away form the first platform they erected and were only 100 feet from it when a pair of Osprey landed on it. The second platform had a pair circling around the boat as they put it out and again landed after it was installed. They will be memories of school that they kids will remember forever. Did you know that Osprey have a very distinctive scent. It is not a fish odor, but a interestingly strange smell, almost musky. Even if they are stuffed and mounted they retain that smell. Not every one can smell it. While dropping of some or our raptors the vet last year I told the receptionist that I smelled Osprey. She said that they had one there that had been rescued and wondered how I could smell it. Same thing with sycamore trees for me. I can smell if one is around when other people say they don't smell a thing A flock o 200 - 300 coots were on the Creek today and as they ran across the water to fly, the pattering of their feet on the water made it sound as if it was raining. I hope everyone has a good birding weekend. I will be stuck inside the most of the weekend. Naturally, Mike Callahan ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================