Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 23:14:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Lookout for Owls in MD [was: Fwd: Snowy Owl at Brigantine] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed MD Ospreyers - A NJ news item, but lots of good words about owls that could be headed to MD ... Phil >Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:32:24 -0500 >Reply-To: lehmfinn@bellatlantic.net >Sender: owner-njbirds@lists.Princeton.EDU >From: Shawneen Finnegan/Paul Lehman >To: NJ Birds Mailing list >Subject: Snowy Owl at Brigantine >X-To: NJBIRDS >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) >X-Accept-Language: en > >A Snowy Owl was seen by many people today (Saturday) at Brigantine >(Forsythe) NWR, primarily along the north dike. The bird may have been >present already a couple days. Also reported at Brig today were a Lark >Sparrow, Lapland Longspur, American Golden-Plover, a couple late >Semipalmated Sandpipers, and a number of White-rumped Sandpipers. > >Observers may be interersted to know that there is definitely a major >"northern owl" movement taking place to our north. Beginning well back >in October, record early numbers of Boreal and Northern Hawk Owls began >appearing in Minnesota and northern Michigan. Those areas are, of >course, well west of us, and those populations may be totally unrelated >to those to our north. HOWEVER, a single Boreal Owl appeared for one day >only in Boston about two weeks ago, and I have just learned that an owl >banding operation in New Brunswick has netted over 90 Boreal Owls, an >operation in southern Maine has had good numbers of Saw-whets and now a >single Boreal Owl last night, and there is also a Snowy Owl on the coast >of Rhode Island. We will see if this "push" continues south as the >winter progresses, or if it fizzles out.... But everyone can start >dreaming (and looking!)... > >--Paul Lehman ================================== 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================