Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:30:27 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: Britannia's Last Stand & Dickcissel In-Reply-To: <01ec01c1fad5$f6624d20$c58e13cf@bcpl.net.us> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 5/13/02 7:28 PM, Steve Sanford at tanager@BCPL.NET wrote: > I didn't > clarify whether Tony had seen Bobolink in England as an accidental, > but he said they only get females or immatures there, so the males > were certainly new. Yes, immature Bobolink do show up in England, but Tony said that they had always eluded him. So the Bobolinks he saw yesterday were ticks for him. The final event of Tony's trip in which I participated was a tremendous downpour with hail the size of quarters that had us trapped inside a store in Hampden for a while around 3:30. He said that that storm would certainly go in his journal as it was beyond anything that he had experienced in Britain. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================