Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:32:40 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kerry Stone Subject: Re: YCNH's and storms Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hmmmm....I hope your Herons are still there. I checked on the herons near me this morning and their fine. Whew.... Kerry Stone Takoma Park, MD Montgomery County In a message dated Thu, 2 May 2002 5:17:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Elliot Kirschbaum writes: >on 5/2/02 10:06 AM, Kerry Stone at KerryZelda@AOL.COM wrote: > >> I have a pair of YCNH's nesting near my house and I'm worried how >> these storms, particularly the one's predicted for this afternoon >> will affect their nest. I know it's nature, but let's say the storm >> and hail takes down their nest, since their last egg date is the 17th >> of May - does that mean they may have another brood? > >We have Yellow-crowned Night-Herons breeding nearby. They bred >successfully last year and the year before. Three years ago, however, a >severe storm knocked down the nest, and the herons did not rebuild >them. I can not remember the date of that storm. > >I will check these birds tomorrow to see if they are still there after >today's storm. > > >Elliot Kirschbaum >Baltimore, MD USA >mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net > >======================================================================= >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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================