Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 09:21:42 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kathleen Wilson Subject: Re: CMS Teams plan for WSOB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank Susan, we can use all the luck we can get. Actually, I am a student on the biding teams. Mr. George Radcliffe started the birding groups a few years back. I have not read the "Feather Guest", though it sounds like it could be helpful. Do you know where to find it? Thanks. Jim Wilson Susan Hoffmann wrote: > > I live on Long Island (New York) and I subscribe to this list because my > parents live in Bethesda so I bird in the DC area often. I have been to Cape > May a few times, in the fall, so I know about the most famous spots and I am > sure you and your students know about them too from your experience last > year. I hope you have read them (or had them read) Pete Dunne's chapter on > the WSOB in "The Feather Quest". Of course he covered all of New Jersey, not > just Cape May County. I just want to wish you all a lot of luck. I also > want to thank you individually, Jim, for introducing your students to birds. > They are such an important part of the "spiritual" or "esthetic" experience > in the outdoors. It is only recently that I have been looking at my > distribution maps with a world-wide ecological slant. There are so many > birds that winter here and breed in the far north. Those birds are the > reason we should encourage the Bush Administration to abandon their plans > for oil drilling in the Arctic NWR. You have a chance to teach your students > about this at an early impressionable age. Thanks for all your efforts, > whether political or "spiritual" or "esthetic" or scientific or whatever! > S. Hoffmann > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================