Date:         Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:47:17 -0500
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From:         odenata <odenata@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Birds & Meteors.
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Thanks for info. Looking forward to getting your Fall season report. (I will
be sending out a reminder after Thanksgiving).

Jo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Arnold" <blackrail@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Birds & Meteors.


> Hi Folks,
>
> Did some birding this weekend in Howard, Carroll, Baltimore, and Anne
> Arundel counties.  Friday, 16 November found me walking along the Patapsco
> River along the path west from Henryton Rd.  There was a fair amount of
> activity this warm November afternoon with highlights on the Howard Co.
side
> of the river bing YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and WINTER WREN, and highlights
> on the Carroll Co. side of the river being the same two species, but
> different birds.  Alpha Ridge Park, in Howard Co. had yet another
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, but nothing else to report.
>
> Saturday was spent out on the island, Hart-Miller that is, and though Gene
> will post the official results of that outing, highlights for me were
> BREWER'S BLACKBIRD, GREAT CORMORANT, SNOW BUNTING, SHORT-EARED OWL, COMMON
> GOLDENEYE, and LONG-TAILED DUCK, all of these being first of the season
for
> me, and the blackbird being a state first.
>
> This morning (Sunday, 11/18) I visited Sandy Point State Park in Anne
> Arundel county, hoping that some of the nice birds from Hart-Miller would
> have percolated a few miles south down the bay.  No such luck, and the
park
> rendered its usual disappointing assortment of birds.  Best finds of the
> morning were outside the park, with a GREAT EGRET in the pond across US 50
> from the park, just abeam the Bay Bridge toll booths; and an immature SNOW
> GOOSE hanging out with some Canadas along Bay Head Rd., about a mile west
of
> the park.
>
> Highlight of today was not birds, but rather meteors.  Thanks to the heads
> up offered by Tom Beal on this listserve several weeks ago, I made plans
to
> spend the early morning hours counting meteors from the Leonid meteor
> shower.  I was not disappointed as I counted 247 meteors between 4:20 and
> 6:00 a.m., the best shower I've ever seen.  I had one meteor just before 5
> a.m. that left a trail lasting for about ten seconds, and on several
> occasion I saw simultaneos meteors, with as many as four at one time.  I
> viewed from my front yard in Glen Burnie, where light polution reigns.  I
> imagine that folks in dark sky conditions with good clear horizons, such
as
> at the beach, must have had a spectacular show.  The best show I'd seen
> before this was the August 1994 Perseid shower, where I counted 54 meteors
> in 52 minutes, nothing compared to this morning's extravaganza.
>
> One last note:  The cheapest gas price on the western shore continues to
be
> 105.9 at several stations along Veteran's Highway, which parallels I-97
> between exits 10 and 12.  This is comparable to Eastern Shore prices, but
> still pales to the 95.9 price in NJ two weeks ago.
>
> Stan Arnold
> Glen Burnie
> blackrail@earthlink.net
>
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