Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:13:55 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Andy Rabin Subject: Fw: [VA-BIRD] Summer tanagers in VA (almost) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is from the VA-Bird list... Andy Rabin Gaithersburg, MD andyrab@wam.umd.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: French, Christopher L. To: Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:06 AM Subject: [VA-BIRD] Summer tanagers in VA (almost) > While getting some exercise along the Potomac River, my wife and I came > across at least one, likely two, summer tanagers. We were binocularles= s, > but the birds were making their distinctive pit-tuk-tuk call (see below for > a link to an audio clip of this call). The birds were 40 or more feet above > us in the tree tops, but I saw a reddish bird which I believe was a mal= e, > and my wife saw a yellow-ish bird which may have been a female or young > bird. > > The birds were, however, on the MD side of the river near the Old Angle= r's > Inn entrance to the C&O Canal path (within sight and shout of VA territory). > > location: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i6100id.html, select > "Call" on the left-hand side of the screen. > > Chris French > Oakton, VA ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================