Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 02:22:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Zen and the Art of "Inner Close Outs" In-Reply-To: <004101bfa1a6$1e2138c0$b78e13cf@bcpl.net.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 06:01 PM 04/08/2000 -0400, Steve Sanford wrote: (SNIP) >Incidentally, I finally got my "close out" Green-winged Teal in St Mary's Co >Monday morning without actually going back there. I finally found it on one >of my lists (3/16/96), which is probably one of several I could sort of see >in my mind at Beauvue ponds. To top that off, I found my close-out Brown >Creeper in Talbot Co (04/93) the same way. BAN-ZAI! [SIC this time, I hope, >if I can control the spell-checker]. Hey Steve ... funny thing about this ... I gave this a try, too. I ... er ... dug out some old trip reports and day lists this morning and I just "got " these close outs ... Black Vulture - Garrett Red-shouldered Hawk - Caroline American Coot - Allegany Ring-billed Gull - Garrett Eastern Phoebe - Somerset Fish Crow - Garrett Carolina Chickadee - Garrett Brown Thrasher - Washington Prairie Warbler - Talbot Blue Grosbeak - Garrett Cha-CHING! Pretty good system, eh? ... "yeah, that's the ticket !" Phil ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================