Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:59:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Re: Feeder Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, If you wish to you could count all those feeder birds and enter them online at Bird Source as part of Cornell's Great Backyard Bird Bird Count. Given we're all stuck at home anyway we could contribute to "The Big Picture" by sending in our lists. The url is: http://www.birdsource.org/ We have been having a similar fine time to other posters to this thread watching birds in our yard and its environs. Thus far today Nancy and I have noted 27 bird species hereabouts. The most numerous species are grackles (24), red-wings (40), white-throats (30), juncos (30), and cardinals (23). We have also had Fox Sparrow (2), towhee (2), Brown Thrasher (not at the feeder), Hermit Thrush (not at the feeder), and Myrtle Warbler (2 being chased out of a cedar across the road by a mocker). Oddly, the avian crowd at the feeder seems to have driven away our normally reliable (and feisty) Tufted Titmice and semi-reliable White-breasted Nuthatches. Take Care Everybody, Walter Ellison MD-DC Atlas Coordinator - MOS 23460 Clarissa Road Chestertown, MD 21620 phone: 410-778-9568 e-mail: rossgull@crosslink.net "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. White (in "Stuart Little") ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================