Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:23:43 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Stock Subject: Re: May Count and...Cicada? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I noticed the same thing today in Silver Spring -- several periodical cicadas in our yard. The kids were thrilled. I also was wondering why now. I wasn't aware of 13 year broods hereabouts, and certainly didn't expect to see any of these until 2004. Slow day for birds, although Blackpolls have arrived in force. Heard them everywhere I went (not birding, rather soccer, school carnival, etc.). Also saw the first Sachems of the year. Tom Stock Silver Spring ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================