Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:39:04 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Safe Date Birds and an Atlas web resource MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Everybody, I took a morning walk in my new local patch NW of Chestertown and got in = a bit of early atlasing. This put me in mind of the safe dates and I = decided to post those species that have become "safe" for the Atlas thus = far. The list as of 1 April: Ruffed Grouse Rock Dove Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-cockaded Woodpecker (we all can dream, can't we?) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Common Raven Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren Northern Mockingbird European Starling Northern Cardinal House Sparrow Coming attractions (other April safe dates): Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 4/20 Wood Duck 4/20 Bald Eagle 4/15 Northern Goshawk 4/15 Ring-necked Pheasant 4/15 Wild Turkey 4/15 Northern Bobwhite 4/15 Killdeer 4/20 American Wodcock 4/15 Mourning Dove 4/15 Barn Owl 4/15 Belted Kingfisher 4/10 American Crow 4/20 Horned Lark 4/10 Pine Warbler 4/25 Swainson's Warbler 4/20 Eastern Meadowlark 4/25 Common Grackle 4/15 Boat-tailed Grackle 4/15 I also wanted to share a website that has a goodly number of Arthur = Cleveland Bent's bird life histories from the old Smithsonian = publication. These accounts are a little dated but have lots of useful = material on basic nesting biology and behavior. The url is:=20 http://home.bluemarble.net/~pqn/index.html =20 Good Atlasing, =20 Walter Ellison=20 23460 Clarissa Road Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-9568 rossgull@crosslink.net =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 =========================================================================