Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:35:21 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Re: Mont Co Ruddy Turnstone???? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob, Based on the call notes, I'm sure they weren't Red-throated or Olive-backed Pipits, both of which I have heard and can eliminate. They actually sounded like American Pipits, with whose call notes I have become familiar over the decades. I suspect they may have been early migrants or perhaps members of a previously unrecognized resident Jug Bay subspecies. Paul ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================