Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:35:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Pete Webb Subject: Re: Yellow-crown arrival dates Comments: cc: ringler@qis.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Pete, > What was the arrival date of your Yellow-crowns this year? > I have you down for your earliest on 3/23/00. > Bob Ringler I've checked my records and verified; this year's 3/26 date was not my earliest all-time arrival; as you indicated, they arrived 3/23 in 2000. At that time, two birds of evidently the same gender appeared and set up rival nests above two neighboring yards, mine and the next door neighbor. By contrast, this year I just saw one bird on the morning of Wed. 3/26, and haven't seen it since. So my hopes for an early nesting start might have been a bit premature. I'll see if a pair eventually shows up and starts rebuilding the nest. In 2000, both nests got youngsters, but the nest over my house tipped over in a wind storm, dumping the one youngster and causing the adult to abandon the nest, while the neighbor's nest remained active and two youngsters were raised that year there and again last year, when two adults arrived late, at the end of April, to refurbish and use the nest. Pete Webb home (after 7 weekdays) pwebb@bcpl.net work (M-F 830-5) pew@niroinc.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================