Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:13:53 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marian Dodson Subject: Some good news to cheer us up MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_d5.1c4f0fd9.2a99b381_boundary" --part1_d5.1c4f0fd9.2a99b381_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit With all the horrors we are experiencing with the West Nile Virus situation, I thought I would share this information, and hopefully the smile it put on my face. > from The Maryland Coast Dispatch - Aug.23, 2002 > ,,,,,"this year in Maryland, the Assateague Island breeding population {of > piping plovers} was an estimated 59-63 pairs which fledged 111 chicks. > When monitoring began in 1986, the breeding population in Maryland was 17 > pairs." > Marian Dodson Glen Burnie, MD MJD405@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 ======================================================================= --part1_d5.1c4f0fd9.2a99b381_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit from The Maryland Coast Dispatch - Aug.23, 2002 ,,,,,"this year in Maryland, the Assateague Island breeding population {of piping plovers} was an estimated 59-63 pairs which fledged 111 chicks. When monitoring began in 1986, the breeding population in Maryland was 17 pairs." Will put entire article in the mail to you. Love ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= --part1_d5.1c4f0fd9.2a99b381_boundary-- =========================================================================