Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:58 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Abbie Banks Subject: Re: Jug Bay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/10/2002 12:25:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dolesh@EROLS.COM writes: > Look for the famous Greg Kearns when you get to the > office. Greg is an excellent birder and will be glad to update you on what > may have been seen in the past few days. If you come back to Jug Bay on > another day, to hike, bike, or drive the 4-mile Chesapeake Bay Critical Area > Driving Tour is a must do (open for driving on Sundays only, but you can > sometimes hike it at other times). > Jug Bay and Patuxent River Park have been favorite birding sites for many years. The past few years, I was on the water often with my tandem leisure kayak and able to weave through the marsh grass areas. Quite a few years back, I coined a word BIRKING. This is a combination of birding and biking. I have birked Patuxent River Park often. Recently I thought I saw in a publication a time period on Saturday for bikers to cross the bridge to Merkle. Is this true? Quite a few years ago, I started taking my grandson on a traditional May birding jaunt to PRP, and specifically to the bridge. At that time he was a little boy and my scope was lowered quite a bit for him. He had the "job" of locating the Bald Eagle's nest, the Osprey nest and counting the Great Blue Heron nests in the rookery which have diminished over the years. Now, years later, he has grown into a young man and lowers the scope for me. We still enjoy boating, kayaking, hiking and birking at Patuxent River Park. Abbie Banks dovekie7@aol.com Prince George's County, Maryland ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================