Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 22:51:33 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joel Martin Subject: Suburban Sparrow Surprise MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Ospreyers, Late this afternoon I looked out my front door to see what appeared to be= a small, pale, short-tailed Song Sparrow feeding on the scattered millet an= d sunflower seed. But it was moving oddly -- walking and running through th= e grass, head down, instead of hopping. I grabbed the binoculars and discov= ered I had . . . a Savannah Sparrow. It was my first of the year and probably = the "best" yard bird in my brief history of luring birds to this rather steri= le patch of suburbia just off the Baltimore Beltway. Maybe there are possibilities here after all. Waiting for warblers in Catonsville, Joel Martin ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================== =============================================== ===========================================================================