Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 16:20:07 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Jack C. Leighty/Susan J. Noble" Subject: Re: Sanderling? Or? On TV Last Night? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, like you a fleeting look at the bird, but Sanderling didcome to mind immediately! Jack C. Leighty & Susan J. Noble Huntingtown, MD jleighty@chesapeake.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Edelstein" To: Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 12:52 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Sanderling? Or? On TV Last Night? > Hello folks: > > So I'm flipping through the channels last night on the TV to get the weather. > > I stopped on the Redskins football game for a moment.......when, all > of a sudden, the camera has a two-second closeup of a bird on the > field.......(2nd quarter of game). > > Did anyone else see this bird? Identify it? > > I highly suspect it was a SANDERLING. Does anyone second this motion? > > Lastly, at Lily Pons this summer during the day and early evening > while still sunny, did anyone else here the cricket frogs I heard > (i.e., They sound like two marbles being banged against each other.)? > (At the time, I thought they were a different species, but now I am > positive "cricket frog" is the correct identification.) > > Regards, Daniel > Daniel Edelstein > > - Publishing nature and science articles since 1980 > - Specializing in writing informative, engaging articles > that empower readers to understand and to take action > - Please see my writing samples at > http://home.earthlink.net/~earthlink > - Consulting with publishers, museums, parks, design firms and public agencies > > 14400 Long Channel Circle > Germantown, MD 20874-5412 USA > (40 miles west of Washington, D.C.) > 301.916.1850 (Voice) > 301.916.1197 (FAX) > > - Do you want to know the date of the next full moon and > read about other sky and land seasonal nature > "phenology" events? If so, see > my "spinning" Earth Web site at > http://home.earthlink.net/~edelstein > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================