Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:26:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Hanfman Subject: Robins MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I know that 50,000 sound like a lot of robins but a few years ago I was in Cape May, NJ at the end of October and one evening we had an estimated 1,500,000 robins fly through in one night. It was an incredible sight. They were everywhere. There were some who put the estimate above 2 or 3 million. So I don't get in trouble with Norm :~), some of these birds must have migrated through Maryland. The National Arboretum is a good sopt for wintering robins. Joe Hanfman Columbia, MD auk1844@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================