Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:31:37 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: Northern Shrike & Snowy Owl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/7/01 6:14:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, marshhawk@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes: << ...saw the Snowy Owl...perching on a fence post >> At one of the fence post locations, the owl was surrounded by a murmuration of marauding Starlings that included 3 bright, yellow Meadowlarks. They appeared to be disinterested while hopping about within a few feet of that magnificent owl. Was a first time winter sighting of Meadowlarks for me. We reluctantly pulled ourselves away from the magic on Olan Rd & sometime around 4:30 arrived on Hughes Rd in time to observe the N Shrike silhouetted against a pink sky. Gail Frantz Reisterstown, MD guineabird@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================