Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:53:07 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Frank Powers Subject: Re: Snow eating/drinking MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 02/19/2003 11:35:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, l_fullerton_1999@YAHOO.COM writes: << the juncos especially were perching on the branches of the lilacs right outside the house, scooping up the snow. >> Cardinals, Starlings exhibited the same behavior in our backyard, mainly toward the end of this weekend's storm, scooping up the snow from our deck railing. About half a dozen House Finches have been visiting our feeders on a consistant basis this winter, usually split evenly between genders. Only had 20 or so American Robins fly over this morning. Frank Powers Glen Echo, MD Montgomery County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================