Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:26:46 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bea Nicholls Subject: Re: Florida/Texas Birding Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/31/00 8:58:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ccrabtre@RADIUM.NCSC.MIL writes: << Late July will be very hit or miss, with an emphasis on the miss. Golden-cheeked warblers are very difficult to find after Memorial Day, and are largely dispersed and gone by late July. Vireos could be around, but will also be widely dispersed. >> True, but I saw my first golden-cheeked warbler in Lost Maples on June 26, 1997. (It was in the late morning, too, because I had to wait until they put up some safety ropes, etc. and let me wade a flooded river to get out of my condo area. I was fortunate to be able to go at all because this was the last day of our stay in that area, and we had been held captive by the flood prior to that. They brought in bull dozers and managed to hold the low water crossing open until we got our car out that afternoon.) Also, that same day I saw lesser goldfinches, painted buntings, bushtits, indigo buntings, and summer tanagers, among other things. If I were in your shoes, I'd go just for whatever other birds are around, and hope that I might see a stray golden-cheeked warbler. The black-capped vireo at Neal's Lodges was seen another year, in the spring. I don't know what they have in late July. Hope you have good luck wherever you go ! Bea Nicholls Balto. Co., Middle River ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================