Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 03:56:26 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Back from Attu ... Comments: cc: Laurie Larson , Susan Hengeveld , Susan Hengeveld Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed We're back (after a three day weather/aircraft delay) ... Maryland had the largest number of birders during the second two weeks of the month when Barbara and I were joined by Greg Miller, Janet Shields, Beth Zang, and Marcia Balestri. We took a picture of our "delegation". Birding highlights for Barbara and I included Ballion's Crake (NA first), a likely Eurasian Sparrowhawk (NA first), Great Spotted Woodpecker (3rd NA record), Dusky Warbler, Common Ringed Plover, Arctic Loon, Gray-tailed Tattler, Emperor Goose, and Garganey. Other good birds included Dusky Thrush, Mongolian Plover, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Slaty-backed Gull. Biggest miss (at least for the two of us ...) was a Fork-tailed Swift. It was tough tearing down the quarters and shipping everything back to Anchorage ... since this was the last Attours trip to Attu, ever. The buildings will be flattened by a bulldozer next year. Good to be back ... Phil ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================