Date:         Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:33:48 -0400
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From:         Phil Davis <pdavis@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      MD/DC Records Committee: Off-line for awhile ... gone birding !!!
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MDOsprey and Bird Records Committee Forum -

I'll be off-line for about five weeks and unable to respond to any queries
regarding the MD/DC Records Committee.  If anyone has any questions, Harvey
Mudd, the Committee Chair, is currently out of the country but will return
from Indonesia and Australia sometime the week of September 4th.  His
e-mail address is shm@codon.nih.gov.  (Ask him if he was successful in
finding the bird, the "Plains Wanderer", in Australia!).  Committee member
Marshall Iliff (MIliff@aol.com) is currently on-line and knows the
committee database by heart.  I will return the week of October 2nd.

Barbara and I will be in Attu for the month of September for the last
Attours trip ever to the island.  After 25 years of organizing birding
trips to Attu, Larry Balch is calling it quits.  As late as 1998, the Attu
US Coast Guard LORAN station was to close in December 2000 due to the
deployment of GPS, meaning an end to use of the runway. Even though a
change of plans will now keep the station operating until 2008, the Attu
"camp" is just taking too much effort to maintain, so Larry decided that
this would be the last year.  Over the 25 years of Attours birding
excursions to the Island, this is only the fourth autumn trip. We are
excited about the prospect of some great fall birds, especially with some
hold over La Nina conditions in the Bering Sea.

We don't leave until mid-day on Wednesday, but I'm starting the process of
"no mailing" all of my listservers.

If anyone is interested in following the progress of our trip, here's a URL
and paragraph from a note I sent to some of our family and friends ...


Attours Fall 2000 Daily Reports:

        http://www.attu.com/fall00.htm

Attours says: "Every few days, we will fax a report of our bird sightings
that someone has volunteered to put on our web site. Sometimes this doesn't
happen right away." The Attours reports typically also include any problems
(weather, logistics, etc.) we might be having. Note: during some years
communications and other problems have kept reports from being posted until
we get back, but it's still worth checking every few days in you're
interested in how things are going. [You might need to hit your browser's
"refresh" button when you check, if it's not set to automatically refresh].
Initially, there are dummy report links on this page and as reports are
posted the date of the report will be shown on the link.  An "advance
party" will arrive on the island about four days ahead of us, so there may
be a report posted even before we get there on September 2nd.


Phil

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Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
                mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com
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