Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:46:37 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Scott Guzewich Subject: Re: Black Rail in Harford County Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Rick, Give me some details and I might be interested in going with you on Saturday. Scott Guzewich >From: rick >Reply-To: rblom@blazie.com >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Black Rail in Harford County >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:44:14 -0500 > > Last evening (Wednesday, May 24), I heard a Black Rail in the >marshes where James Run approaches Rte. 40. I was railing the marshes fr= om >the railroad track, as I have done numerous times in the past, when the >bird called four times. I was unable to elicit any additional responses >with my tape, perhaps because the bird was some distance away and perhap= s >because of the awful road noise (always a problem at this site). This is >the second record of Black Rail for Harford and my first, > In addition, I had 12+ Virginia Rails, and one Sora. I also hea= rd >a >possible King Rail, but it was too far away to be certain and only calle= d >once. I have had King Rail at this location before. > Several Harford birders are considering joining me in a late (v= ery >late) Saturday night (weather permitting) effort to get the bird again. >Anyone interested should e-mail me. > The Black Rail was species number 287 for my Harford County lis= t. > >Rick > >Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. -- Norman Douglas > >Rick Blom >rblom@blazie.com >4318 Cowan Place >Belcamp, Maryland 21017 >(410)575-6086 >Editor: BWD Skimmer >(www.birdwatchersdigest.com) > >========================= ================================================ >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >========================= ================================================ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================