Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:07:04 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Toni & Bob Hartman Subject: Re: Snow eating/drinking MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I agree about the House Finches. In previous years, their numbers at our feeders have been comparable to those of House Sparrows, but this winter they have been far less numerous. Even during the last few days, we have seen only a couple or three. Bob Hartman Colesville, MD Lynette Fullerton wrote: - it didn't come back after that! > > One thing that really worried me, though, was the > almost complete absence of House Finches. I have only > seen a few this season, but I thought that the snow > would drive them to my feeders. I saw two this > weekend, I think. Has anybody else noticed that? > > Lynette Fullerton > Odenton, AA Co., MD > l_fullerton_1999@yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================