Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:10:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Fallon Subject: Re: Atlas Bird confirmed And Other bird newes in QA County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My understanding is this: actual observation trumps safe date, both for "probable" and "confirmed". True, for a few wide-roaming species some "probable" behaviors may have to yield to safe dates. But you can't argue with a nest with eggs in it! - Fred Fallon fwfallon@eartjhlink.net "George M. Jett" wrote: > > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================