Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:11:17 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: DC Comp List Creeps Up on MD! 73 Apecies Added!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 0100,0100,0100DC Birders were working hard the last= couple of weeks. We now stand at 192 species (+1 possible new one) for 61.9% of the DC List. Sometime in April Vesper SP, Wild Turkey, Spotted SP 4/16 Common YT, Green Heron, B&W Warbler 4/20 Solitary SP, White-eyed Vireo, Proth Warbler, YC Night Heron, RE Vireo, No. Parula, BT Green Warbler 4/21 Yellow Warbler 4/22 Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, Lincoln's Sp, Lesser YLegs, Grasshopper Sp, Orchard Oriole 4/23 Ovenbird, Great Egret, House Wren, Cliff Swallow 4/25 La Waterthrush, Blue-winged W, Broad-winged Hawk, RT Hummer 4/27 Worm-eating W, Nashville W, Blue-headed Vireo, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager 4/28 Little Blue Heron, Great-crested FC, No Waterthrush, 4/29 Purple Martin, Indigo Bunting, No. Harrier, E. Kingbird, Warbling Vireo, Bank Swallow, Purple Finch, Snowy Egret 4/30 YB Cuckoo, Chestnut-sided W, BT Blue W, Prairie W, Am. Redstart 1st Week of May Golden-winged Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, YB Chat, Summer Tanager 5/1 Blackpoll W, Magnolia W, Veery 5/2 Swainson's Thrush, RB Grosbeak, Tennessee W 5/3 Bobolink 5/4 Canada W, Cape May W 5/5 Hooded W, Blackburnian W, Acadian FC, E. Wood PW 5/6 Blue Grosbeak, Kentucky W, Wilson's W, Baybreasted W 5/8 Gray-cheeked Thrush 5/11 Mourning Warbler Leader of the Pack: Gail Mackiernan/Barry Cooper. Other high contributors David Mozurkewich, Paul Pisano, Rob Hilton and Kevin Graff. Contributions also made by Mike Milton, Greg Gough, Mike Bown, Bill Dobbins. We thank everyone who posted. I know there were a few other DC listers--Jim Felley among them, who were deskbound during this period and couldn't get out for the early arrivals. This was truly an extraordinary effort. Special thanks to Paul Pisano and Rob Hilton for keeping a running tally so that I could get the final list out to you faster. Best to all of you....weekly updates back on schedule! Fran -------------------------------- Fran Saunders Web Site Director Maryland Ornithological Society Silver Spring, Maryland webmaster@mdbirds.org http://www.MDBirds.org/ ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================