Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:51:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Huy, Steve" Subject: FW: CCRT BWHA update MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" What a storm we are having today! All the birds stayed hidden at my house except for a few house finches and a lone junco. I live in open farm land and the junco is a rare bird for my yard. Robins have been singing all week. Snipe have returned to the marshy area behind my mailbox. Unfortunately the farmer keeps plowing the area in hopes of planting it. The accipiters raiding the pigeons seem to have thinned, or perhaps its because the only free pigeon left can out-fly any of them. For those of us eagerly awaiting the arrival of broadwinged hawks I have copied the message below. Some of these hawks were marked in western Maryland at their nest sites last summer. Hello Folks, 24093 and 24095 have continued their movement north and are now just south of the equator. There are two new locations for each since the last update. The most recent locations for those two birds came in 4 minutes apart and the two birds were 150 miles apart in Peru. Although these locations were of low confidence so that may not be very precise. We have continued to hear from 23897 in Panama and she appears to be staying tight on the wintering range. And last we heard from 24161 in Venezuela she wasn't on the move yet either. We have not gotten a location for 24161 in over a week. http://www.ccrt.org/HTML/Broad-WingedMAP.htm If any of you know of anyone else who may be interested in witnessing the migration of our BWHA's please feel free to forward this message to them or have them get in touch with me to be added to the mailing list. Thanks folks, Jack GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist Center for Conservation Research and Technology UMBC Room 105 TRC Building 5200 Westland Blvd. Baltimore, Maryland 21227 410-455-8046 jcibor1@gl.umbc.edu www.ccrt.org ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================