Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:59:33 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Frank Boyle Subject: Re: Warning! Get a pass before birding at Patuxent Refuge Comments: To: FW5RW_PRRNTVCS@fws.gov In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sue, Also, a Louisiana Waterthrush is nothing exciting...but I assume you know that as a wildlife refuge staff member? It has been my experience that a lot of federal employees have absolutely no backround in natural history and are painfully ignorant when it comes to science and ornithology. Hopefully this is not the case with you. Check your records before you send out snippy e-mails. We turned in our passes. Frank Boyle ravenfrank@earthlink.net Laurel, MD -----Original Message----- From: FW5RW_PRRNTVCS@fws.gov [mailto:FW5RW_PRRNTVCS@fws.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:16 PM To: ravenfrank@EARTHLINK.NET Cc: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Warning! Get a pass before birding at Patuxent Refuge To Frank Boyle -- I'm delighted that you saw a Louisiana waterthrush up here at the North Tract along the Little Patuxent River (I'm hoping it was the Little Patuxent River, and not the Patuxent River, that you were referring to in your Sept. 19 posting at MD OSPREY, because there IS NO PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE PATUXENT RIVER from the North Tract of the Research Refuge). However..... Before you invite every other birder in Maryland to Patuxent Refuge's North Tract to see the Louisiana waterthrush, you might want to remind them to first check in at the front desk, obtain a visitor permit (it takes about 1.5 minutes to do this), and particularly, to get an update on where hunting is being carried out at North Tract for that day. I just checked passes for the past several days, and did not see a visitor's permit pass for a Frank or Irene Boyle, which would have been required, if indeed, you did walk along the Little River Trail loop right next to the parking lot at Patuxent's North Tract. Please, please, check in with us first before you go birding up here. Right now, it is mourning dove shotgun season and deer hunting bow season at the North Tract, and not all of these hunters are great shots -- we don't want anyone to get hurt. Sue Darcey, Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract staff ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================