Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:54:08 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Stock Subject: Re: Gravel Drive Birds? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When I lived in the north country, the bird I saw most frequently in driveways getting gravel were red crossbills. But I don't imagine that's your culprit... Tom Stock Silver Spring In a message dated 3/3/2003 8:15:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, mcdanieljr@EARTHLINK.NET writes: > I have birds that roost in my drive at night. The drive is crushed slag of mixed sizes (about 1.5" max). I think the birds are Horned Larks as I see them during the daytime but have not been able to see them well at night what with not having my binoculars and/or the birds not being present (like last night). > > I can't find any references to this behaviour in my various books but the lark supposedly likes beaches and gravel some of the time (not specified in the book). The other bird I have frequently in my yard is Song Sparrow, but I don't think that is what I see (the birds I see have a light spot above the eye or at least that is what I observe by eye -- again no bins and birds so far). > > I have started carrying my spare bins in the car so I might be able to confirm my sighting some evening but thought > someone else might have observed something similar. > > Best, > > Joe McDaniel > Monrovia, MD > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================