Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 08:24:13 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Prothonotary Nesting Boxes In-Reply-To: <8e.6429621.26761ddb@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 07:04 AM 6/12/00 , you wrote: >I read in The Birders Handbook that Prothonotaries have two broods in "the >South." I have not experienced two broods in my boxes, and believe this to >be unusual if not rare this far north. Anyone have data to support this >belief? Bob, I'm not sure if Southern Maryland qualifies as being part of the "South" but the Prothonotaries that nest in our boxes in the swamp at Battle Creek Nature Center in Calvert County are often double-brooded. ////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================