Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:49:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Doldrums? Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- It seems as if almost no one is going out birding now, or if they are, they aren't posting (??). Anyway, seems very quiet on the Maryland front... We have been finishing up some atlasing, things are shutting down quickly but we are still managing to find a few nice surprises, such as Willow Flycatcher and Warbling Vireo at a local golf course, as well as over 60 Purple Martins! We also had a visitor in our driveway yesterday, a little Ovenbird walking about. Local neotropical breeders are dispersing and soon will be on the move... However, we noticed a Mourning Dove carrying nesting material flying into a pine in our yard. So its not over yet! Cheers, Gail Mackiernan ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================