Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:03:55 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: "Unofficial" Big Sit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, On Sunday (10-13-02), i did an unofficial big sit (i.e. - i didn't register). Sat on my backyard perch overlooking Jug Bay for 6 one-hour periods starting at 6:45am and alternating an hour on, an hour off, skipping the one in mid afternoon. Ended up with 66 species, the big surprises being 2 Royal Terns, a Bonaparte's Gull, a Least Bittern, a Black and White Warbler, and a Parula Warbler. There were some bad misses too, of course. In the 2 days before and 2 days after, i recorded 15 additional species, including 2 new for my yard list - White-rumped Sandpiper (12th) and Dunlin (15th), as well as my first Ring-necked Duck of the season (15th). danny bystrak bristol, AA Co. MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================