Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:32:51 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Frank Powers Subject: Birding by car...intentionally! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sitting in line to turn onto Mass Ave by the Earle Palmer Brown agency on Goldsboro Rd., a BLACK & WHITE Warbler sang out. Hmm. Why wait in line here, when one can go down to Canal Rd., move slowly and hear more birds?! Sure enough, a WOOD THRUSH gave out its always wondrous song while I waited at the Cabin John Bridge light! (The first I've heard in Glen Echo this year.) This had all the hallmarks of a fruitfull birding commute into town. Wrong. Traffic didn't slow down again until Canal merges with MacArthur Blvd. where, with its mocking call, a Pileated Woodpecker let it be known if you really want to bird, 'human powered' listing is still the only way. I knew that. But where is Lisa Baden when you really need her, letting you know where the best traffic jams are, so you can join all the other car-bound birders intent on listening to the birdsongs as you head to work? Hope you had better birding this am, Frank Powers Glen Echo, MD mattfp@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================