Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:27:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: Updates Comments: cc: smuller@co.ho.md.us, DADO1BW@aol.com, les_eastman@netfox.net, pwebb@bcpl.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I. Please disregard the Hart-Miller Island field trip entries for the Baltimore Bird Club (Sat, Jan 6; Sat, Feb 3; Sat, Mar 3) as listed in the "MOS Calendar" section of the latest issue of the Maryland Yellowthroat. This information is incorrect. There are no organized field trips for those days. I do survey the island most Saturdays (8-10 hours, 6-8 miles) and anyone is welcome to accompany me on those days. Just contact me (e-mail or phone) by the Thursday evening prior to the Saturday that you wish to go out. I make the arrangements with Maryland Environmental Service on friday mornings. II. Currently, the only scheduled, organized field trip to the island in 2001 is by the Montgomery Chapter in September. III. As of Friday, December 29, 2000, the ice thickness in Back River had become at least 3 inches thick. As of that date, the Maryland Environmental Service work boat will no longer travel between the mainland and the island until such time that the ice conditions abate. Therefore, there will be no Saturday bird surveys on the island for the immediate future. Workers will now begin travelling back and forth to the island by helicopter. This is not an option available for birders. I will let you know when the boat is available again. Thanks, Gene Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland (410) 388-0852 ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================