Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:22:38 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kyle Rambo Subject: Upland Sandpiper, St. Mary's County, MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Observed 7 Upland Sandpipers yesterday (7/10/00) in the helicopter operating area of the airfield at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, St. Mary's County, MD. Don't know how much earlier the birds may have arrived, as I didn't get onto the airfield at all last week. Also rescued a pair of Chimney Swift fledglings today. The birds had apparently left the nest, but weren't quite able to fly yet (or at least not well). They were crawling about on the floor in the fireplace, squawking and making quite a racket. This all took place in the middle of a meeting in the VIP conference room of Building 2189 on the Naval Air Station. The birds had apparently fallen or flown (?) down below the metal flue and couldn't get back above it. I reached up into the chimney and placed both birds on the chimney wall above the flue. Both immediately began to climb back up the rough inner surface of the chimney. Kyle Rambo Hollywood, MD Kyle_Rambo@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail =96 Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================