Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:30:43 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: peregrine fledgling on Solomons bridge Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Last week I stopped under the Solomons bridge to check up on the nesting = Peregrine Falcons. They seem to alternate which county they nest in. = Several years ago it was St. Mary's. Last year, or the year before, it was = Calvert. Now they're back to St. Mary's. They always nest in an abandoned = Osprey nest. Anyway, there was a fledgling sitting on one of the stanchions= on the south side of the bridge. Turns out it is just on the opposite = side of the bridge from the nest. Yesterday, on my way southbound across = the bridge, Mom, Dad and junior were all out stretching their wings. = Junior was obviously ill at ease in the air flapping unnecessarily while = the parents soared on the blast furnace wind. So, chalk up an FL for = Solomons CW (2003) for Peregrine Falcon! Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, MD Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================