Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:59:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Re: Origin of Fork-tailed Flycatcher? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ralph, interesting, what you had to offer about the Fork-tailed Flycatcher. I think the one in Vermont was last seen in late July, and as you mentioned , it was very much a dawn and dusk bird. Sure is tempting to think it migh t be the same bird. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie, MD -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Wall To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Origin of Fork-tailed Flycatcher? >Stan & all--I stopped at the Fork-tailed Flycatcher site in Delaware on >Wednesday, Sept 27, on my way back from Kiptopeke, arriving about 5:00 P M and >staying until 7:00 PM, about 15 minutes after sunset. I thought that if this >was the Vermont bird, it might repeat its Vermont habit of appearing at dusk. > No luck. > >While keeping my vigil, the owners of the property on which the bird was >found on Friday and Saturday, came out to greet me and to chat. Their young >daughter said that she had been seeing this bird for about a month, and had >pointed it out to her parents. I'm relating this in the event that it h as >been at least a month since the VT flycatcher was last seen. They also said >that they had not seen the bird since it was observed flying North about 4:30 >PM last Saturday. > >Ralph Wall >Great Falls, Va. > >======================== =============================================== >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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================