Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:42:40 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Frederick W. Fallon" Subject: Re: Geese heading north MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gail Mackiernan wrote: > > Hi -- > > This morning we had several skeins of Canada Geese flying north over our > house in Colesville, very high -- assume true "wildlings" heading north. > > And just a few minutes ago, a skein of over 200 Snow Geese, also high and > heading north...a yard bird! > > "like a wind-blown bird, my heart goes forth, sent by the spring to the > shining North..." (old folk song...) > > Gail Mackiernan > Colesville, MD > gail@mdsg.umd.edu > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= We too saw many V's over Bowie this am, all flying north and fairly high. What a thrill this sight - and sound - used to give us, before the era of the non-migrants blunted our sensibilities. - Fred Fallon Bowie ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================