Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:34:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Free: 22,038 word "yard list" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Gratis copies: 42 page, heavily-annotated bird list. This document analyzes significant bird records at the Armistead family place, Rigby's Folly, our vacation and spiritual home since the early 1920's, on the Choptank River. Daily checklists have been kept every year since 1953 including bandings on c. 20 of those years. I'm happy to send a copy to all interested (allow 1 month). Just give me your mailing address. This latest printing includes records through January 2001. I have not yet completed analysis of all bandings nor have I finished going through my diary but all significant records are nevertheless in place. Big Days have been done every month of the year. 103 species have been banded. 69 species have been detected breeding. Please "order" your copy before February 1 so I do not have to make the trip to Staples more than once to get 'em run off. "Birds of Rigby's Folly, a Chesapeake Bay farm in Talbot County: an annotated checklist and regional ornithology including seasonal status and abundance, maxima, banding data, breeding records, general commentary, and colloquial names." This is intended to be an appendix to a book I am writing on birding as well as the natural history of and my experiences on the Eastern Shore, centered on our property. So far I've completed 22 chapters totalling 111,000 words. Hope you enjoy it and find it of interest. If you look it over you could do me a great favor: let me know if you find inconsistencies or mistakes. Thank you. Best to all and blockbuster birding to you: Harry Armistead, 523 E. Durham St., Philadelphia, PA 19119. 215-248-4120. 74077.3176@compuserve.com. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================