Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:08:41 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Milton Subject: Woodcock in downtown DC Comments: To: Peter Vankevich , jugr@loc.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Date: > Thu, 11 May 2000 16:38:52 -0400 (EDT) > From: > "Judith A. Gray" > To: > Mike Milton > CC: > "judyschaefer@ibm.net" > > > > > Just wanted to report that last night as I left my church's choir > rehearsal (1st Congregational at Metro Center, right next to MLK Librar= y), > I found myself staring at a small woodcock sitting in our parking > lot on G Place, about 6 feet from the church door. It flew poorly as I > approached it, crashing into the wall and into a car, etc., but still > seemed basically OK. After several attempts to "herd" it to a more > hospitable location away from the asphalt, I finally "cornered" it, pic= ked > it up, and carried it around front to a place with shrubs, etc., where = I > hope it had a chance to re-group. (If I could have figured out a safe w= ay > to carry the bird without adding yet more stress to it, I would have > smuggled it onto the Metro and released it near my apt. building by Roc= k > Creek Park, but that just wasn't possible.) I rather doubt that it will > have survived downtown D.C., but it was certainly a remarkable encounte= r > (_and_ a life bird for me). > The above received from a DC Audubon board member, who wonders if the bird was blown in by the storm earlier that evening. If not a DC Comp list addition, this is certainly an unusual sighting for downtown, and I share Judith's hope that the woodcock made its way to more appropriate habitat. Mike Milton Washington, DC ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================