Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:07:21 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "J. B. Churchill" Subject: Re: Status of some MD birds? In-Reply-To: <200101151335.IAA28093@umd5.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Yesterday (Sunday) I DID see the Snowy Owl and a few Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs along Oland Road East of New Design Road near the pretty orange signs. I spent a couple of hours looking for the N. Shrike on Hughes Road. I saw at least 4 other groups of birders looking and none had seen it including me. J.B. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ At 08:26 AM 1/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: >There has been a dearth of posts on current status of some of the unusual >birds about. For example, at a bird club meeting last night I heard that >"The Snowy Owl is gone" and "No one has seen the shrike for days..." , but >nothing to MDosprey. Also, no reports for a couple of weeks on the >Harlequin Duck and -- since my husband and his brother found it -- we were >interested as to its last sighting. Any input on that? (We saw it last on >Dec. 29.) > >If the Snowy Owl IS gone, then this would immediately bring the Owl Circus >to a halt -- so this news should be widely disseminated to birders. I would >be less certain of the shrike, a notoriously fickle species, but again --if >it is truly "in absentia" for a significant period, again it would relieve >some of the recent -- although by no means as serious -- birder pressure on >the area. > >And I assume that the Green-tailed Towhee has been looked for a bit and not >relocated. I would bet it is still around but in a somewhat different area, >there is so much habitat out there! > >Please remeber that NEGATIVE reports are as useful as positive reports, if >one is planning a trip to look for a spacial bird. > >Cheers, >Gail Mackiernan >Colesville, MD > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= ====================================================== John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 West Virginia University ext. 4456 Natural Resource Analysis Center http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================