Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:48:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: veery retraction Comments: cc: Fran Saunders MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Mark Get a copy of the Yellowbook, Field List of the Birds of Maryland, 1996. It shows the first date for Verry was April 9. Normal arrivals are early to mid May. The book will help with future questions you have on range and distribution of birds that can be found in MD. www.MDBirds.org should carry it at the bookstore. Regards George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Miller" To: Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:24 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] veery retraction > Yesterday I posted about singing red-wings and a > thrush that I thought was probably a veery. > > After I posted I looked through my "Birds of > Pennsylvania" and saw that the veery does not show up > in PA for another 5-6 weeks or so. > > Someone also wrote to me and suggested I probably did > see a Hermit Thrush, which was my first thought until > I could not find the reddish tail I was expecting. > Turns out the reddish tail is not always as obvious as > I was thinking. Plus, it would have helped if I had > bothered to take my binoculars! > > Sorry about that! > > Mark Miller > Laurel, Maryland > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================