Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:46:41 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bob Mumford Subject: Re: Prothonotary Nesting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am happy to report that the lonely bachelor Prothonotary finally found a mate after at least six weeks of singing vigorously around the nest box at Violettes. The female was sitting on four eggs on June 30, meaning that the last one was laid no earlier than June 27, four days after the latest egg for this species shown in the Yellow Book. I suspect, but of course cannot know, that the female nested earlier with another male. Bob Mumford Darnestown ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================