Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:43:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: parke Subject: More on Cats Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just for the record, since I've started trapping cats, 16 months and 15 cats ago, I've seen a dramatic increase in ground feeding birds in my yard. I have four Fox Sparrows this winter and one last winter. Previously I had none. There are more Hermit Thrushes around. I've also noticed an increase in Towhees last summer. According to my purely subjective records, I've also noticed more sparrows in general. My goal is to hear Ovenbirds and Wood Thrushes on a regular basis some spring in the near future. See: http://www.abcbirds.org/cats/catsindoors.htm Parke pjohn@wlgore.com parke@del.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================