Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:27:41 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Wallace Subject: Egret Regrets Navigation Error Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is not off topic but is from out of the MD-DC area. I thought members might find interest in this article from the Rampant Scotland Weekly Newsleter. http://www.rampantscotland.com/letter.htm ______________________________________________ Egret Regrets Navigation Error A North American snowy egret, en route from Florida to Africa has found itself on an Ayrshire golf course instead. The large bird is causing a stir amongst the UK twitchers (bird spotters) who flocked first to the island of Seil near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. It arrived there in October and it was the first sighting of the bird ever recorded in Britain. An estimated 1,000 bird watchers made the trip to the island to add the bird to their list of bird species seen. The egret then moved south to Ardeer golf course in Ayrshire where it was spotted this week. It is likely that strong winds blew the bird 4,000 miles off course. While it has adapted well to the Scottish climate, it may now be heading south to get warmer weather. ______________________________________________ Jim Wallace Bowie, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================