Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:36:37 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: More Red-breasted Nuthatches MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Speak of the devil, I made a brief stop this afternoon at Pine Knob Road off Rt 32 in eastern Carroll Co, one of the sites where the crossbills were repeatedly seen in the winter of 97-98, and had at least 4 tooting Red-breasted Nuthatches. I also heard one at the Liberty Lake boat launch area off Oakland Mills Rd. The cones in the white pines seem to be quite thick again, as in 97-98, and that crossbill invasion was preceded by an irruption of Red-breasted Nuthatches. Is this an omen? Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================