Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:25:48 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Green-Backed Herons Chicks OMW - 6/20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Four Green-Backed Heron chicks have hatched at Owings Mills Wetland. They are only a few days old (hatching between Tuesday 6/13 and Friday 6/16) and covered with gray down. Audubon's Encyclopedia indicates 21-23 days until they fledge. If you're are interested; feel free to contact me for directions to the nest site. Good Birding! Keith Eric Costley Randallstown, BC ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================