Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 05:46:31 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Miller Subject: Weather & migration MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Howdy All! Although this is one of the "best" days so far this Spring weatherwise (winds from the south, warm night, etc), I found it to be a slow day (at least by low species count). But somebody somewhere should be getting dumped on... Hope some of you up north along some of the ridges and hills can get out today. I have found this sort of weather *not* to be conducive in southern Maryland as the weather helps migration enough that there is overshot down here. What's here leaves and what is migrating, keeps on going until it is stopped by some physical feature (big ridges, hills, large expanses of water, or thunderstorms and/or heavy rain). There were, however, a huge number of Red-eyed Vireos this morning at Greenwell. By huge, I mean I [conservatively] counted 28 singing birds in the 45 minutes I spent birding the White Trail at Greenwell (sounded like Garrett County in late July ). I had only 38 species total with only Louisiana Waterthrush (1), Ovenbird (4), Kentucky Warbler (1), Common Yellowthroat (2), Yellow-rumped Warbler (1), Prairie Warbler (1), Acadian Flycatcher (1), Great-crested Flycatcher (1), Scarlet Tanager (3), Summer Tanager (1), Blue-headed Vireo (1), Wood Thrush (8), Blue Grosbeak (2). Waiting to hear some good reports today from other sites... -Greg Miller Hollywood, MD __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================