Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:48:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Eastern Shore trivia MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Howdy, 1. My recent Smith Island posting mentioned 25 robins seen near Crisfield on Feb. 9. Should have been 55. Thanks to Wayne Bell, Danny Bystrak, Mark Garland, and Jim Wilson for replying to 2 questions I raised in a later posting: 2. The upshot is that Maryland has NO natural lakes, zilch, except for possibly Savanna Lake, of all places, on the Elliott Island Road. No H darkens Savanna's door. Savanna is quite big with no openings to Chesapeake Bay waters except that it does seem to serve as the "headwaters", if that is really the case, of Pokata Creek. 3. The other item relates to virga: "wisps of precipitation evaporating before reaching the ground", such as were abundant last Sunday afternoon. From Latin meaning branch, rod, streak in the sky suggesting rain. One of those words that serves as both plural and singular? 4. The latest Delorme atlas on hand here shows the Chicawicomico River in southern Dorchester County but an earlier Delorme, the Dorchester C of C map, and the ADC county atlas show it as Chicamacomico, same as the old live-saving station on Hatteras Island, and the way I am used to seeing it but now there's this terrible nagging doubt. Best to all.-Harry Armistead, 523 E. Durham St., Philadelphia, PA 19119-1225. 215-248-4120. Any off-list replies, please, to: harryarmistead@hotmail.com "I'd rather be in an apple tree than a poor man in adversity." ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================