Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:40:13 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Atlas Bird confirmed And Other bird newes in QA County Comments: cc: Gwen Brewer , coskren@erols.com, Robert Ringler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Danny Good spotting. A question. The safe date for Killdeer is April 20. How does the atlas project deal with birds that do not hold to the rules? Maybe the safe dates will be widened, where appropriate, after some data is collected. I see lots of indication of pre-breeding activity long before the safe dates but wait patiently. Male bluebirds singing at length on territory, inspecting nest boxes, copulation, .... What guidance is available, please? George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Poet" To: Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:12 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Atlas Bird confirmed And Other bird newes in QA County > Hi all Got my first Confirmed Bird for the Breeding bird atlas in Queen > Annes county I stumbled upon it while working today . A killdeer > sitting on four eggs. also on Mon Morning 3-18 02 I had a Breeding plumaged > laughing Gull In a large flock of Ring Billed Gulls.Also Mon I saw A male > House finch Checking out Last years nest under the eves of a building. > > > Good Birding > Danny Poet > Queenstown Md > dannypoet@hotmail.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================