Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:15:51 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Fw: 3rd C&O Canal Mid-Winter Bird Survey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Vankevich" Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 9:42 PM Subject: 3rd C&O Canal Mid-Winter Bird Survey > This message is going out to all participants (with email) of this year's > C&O Canal Mid-Winter Bird Survey. > The 3rd Annual C& O Canal Midwinter Survey will take place on Sunday, > January 21, 2001. We will follow the same format as last year which will be > to tally species and numbers on a mile-by-mile basis using the mileposts > along the towpath. > You should all have received the data sheet that was compiled by Mike > Milton which also included a summary of the previous year. If you did not > get a copy, let us know. > This past year we covered 144 miles out of the entire 184.6 miles, quite > an achievement. On paper a week before the survey we had coverage for 179 > miles - then the snows hit and some of the parties were not able to > complete their sections. (My own group could not complete the entire > section from Little Orleans up to mile 150 due to no access roads). For a > nice summary, see http://www.dcaudubon.org/articles.htm#survey > We hope you will do the area that was assigned to you last time. Please > let us know If you intend to participate: Peter Vankevich 202 547-4523 > email: pvank@cais.net and/or Mike Milton 202 543-6672 email: > mikemilton@attglobal.net > as well of birders you know without email who have participated. > We want to get 100% coverage. If you know competent birders who would like > to participate, please have them get in touch with us. > Regards/ Peter Vankevich > > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================