Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:16:39 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Pete Webb Subject: Henlopen - Ocean City trip weathered out Comments: To: ekirschb@bcpl.net, ocean_city2001@yahoo.com, bailey.fine@mail.house.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'll be at the Nursery Road Park-n-Ride lot Saturday morning 7 am, but barring a miraculous change in the weather forecast, I'll just be announcing the trip is off to those (if any) who insist on showing up there. Any people turning up 10 am at Henlopen are on their own. The weather forecast has been consistently predicting 2-4 inches by then, with 2 - 8 more inches coming on Saturday, mainly in the evening (when I'd be on my way home from West Ocean City Pond). It would be irresponsible of me to lead people out into those hazardous conditions (it'd be different if everyone were northerners accustomed to driving in snow every winter, but many aren't, even after this unusually wintery winter we've been having). BTW (by the way), I'm wondering if we're getting close to some kind of record for length of time of continuous snow cover over much of the ground here; while at work and along south-facing banks the snow has cleared, my yard, which is fairly level, has been snow-covered since . . whenever that fairly significant snowfall was in January some time. I'm concerned about the survival of my local Carolina Wren (which was actually inside my house a couple of days ago, another stress factor for the starving bird). Peter Webb Document scanning and mail distribution Niro, Inc. Columbia, MD email pew@niroinc.com telephone (410) 997-8700 ext. 6928 Email Confidentiality: http://www.niroinc.com/EmailConfidentiality.html ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================