Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:57:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynn & Hal Subject: Annapolis-Gibson Island CBC highlights MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Annapolis-Gibson Island CBC was Sunday the 30th. Although the = weather was cold and windy, it didn't seem to affect the species total = much. With one sector still to report in, the preliminary total was 107 = species, which is tied for highest species total in the last 5 years. = Highlights include: Northern Gannet-2 Great Cormorant-23 Snow Goose-1 Osprey-1 Purple Sandpiper-1 Laughing Gull-38 (new all-time high count) Lesser Black-backed Gull-2 Eastern Phoebe-1 House Wren-1 Orange-crowned Warbler-1 Dickcissel-1 White-crowned Sparrow-3 Baltimore Oriole-1 The compilers would like to extend their sincere gratitude to Leo = Weigant and the "Tally Up Crew" for all the great-tasting food after the = long cold day. Thanks also to the area leaders for doing a fine job = lining up participants in their sectors. Happy 2002,=20 Hal Wierenga Sue Ricciardi Lynn Davidson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D