Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:01:52 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: CBC Highlights? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gail, and all; The Triadelphia CBC was held on Saturday Dec. 16. Weather was, in a word, awful! It was pea-soup fog most of the day, and when it wasn't just foggy it was raining. Still, some nice birds were found, though I have only looked briefly at the data. Highlights included; Greater White-fronted Goose, Vesper Sparrow, imm. Harris' Sparrow, Dickcissel, and Brewers Blackbird. These are all pending further details. I was unable to count this year, nor was I able to even attend the tally. My wife and daughter Alli handled most of this with help from Rob Gibbs and Norm and Fran Saunders (and others, perhaps; I don't know). Many thanks to you all! I spent the day in Montgomery General Hospital, having been diagnosed on Friday with a heart murmur and enemia stemming from a prolonged bleeding ulcer. They admitted me at the emergency room and did an endoscopy, and put me on an IV drip, giving me 4 units of blood! My blood levels were extremely low. For a hardcore birder to not feel like doing a Christmas bird count, something had to be seriously wrong! Anyway, I am fine now, back to a rosy-pink color, with lots of energy and back to work today. Just sorry to have missed the count and tally, but many, many thanks to all who wished me well (in my absence) at the tally; especially Norm and Fran, Jane Coskren, and all the folks from Howard County, and everyone else (you know who you are)! As soon as I get some more data in the mail, and some details on the rarities, I will post more highlights here. But, despite the weather, it looks like we had quite a good count. Rick Sussman warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================