Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:27:13 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: Ho Co (Sparrows) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/9/2002 8:29:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, birdersforever@EROLS.COM writes: > First time I have heard it (that I know of). Is that > unusual to hear them sing this time of year? Song has a rather finchy > quality to it. > J, I had a good number of Fox Sparrows Saturday at Layhill Park, and many were singing, though not entire songs. They were singing short snippets of song, sort of like White-throated Sparrows do this time of year. More often you hear them sing on their way through in the spring. Rick Sussman Ashton, MD warblerick@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================