Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:34:03 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kathleen Wilson Subject: Re: Ruffs at John Brown Rd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just got back from the M.O.S conference, lot of fun. The second I received this e-mail, 5 ish, I grabbed my binoculars jumped on my bike (remembered my helmet and speed down to the sod farm. I live just about a mile down John Brown, so I got there in less then 10 minutes. Sure enough, about fifty feet from the road, working their way back were the group of 4 cinnamon variety Ruffs, just as Fred described. Wa hoo. nice street bird. -Jim Wilson QA County Fred Fallon wrote: > > Today at 2 pm we found no fewer than *4* Ruffs at the turf farm in John > Brown Rd in QA Co. All were of the cinammon color variety and all much > alike, and all 4 remained together as they moved about. Some retained a > portion of their head tufts. > At times they were quite far from the road, and favored areas of taller > grass, so are not always obvious. But when seen, they are large > impressive birds. > > We failed to find the Dickcissel reported on Ell Downs Rd. But at the > other end of that road (at Bridgetown Rd), there were ~20 Pectoral > Sandpipers sporting in a puddle by the house under construction and in > the wet field opposite. > > Fred and Jane Fallon > Bowie > fwfallon@mnsinc.com > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================