Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:47:27 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: Fewer swans in MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/22/2003 12:16:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Robert.Churi@NOAA.GOV writes: << http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20030422-68468747.htm Maryland wildlife officials are ready to start killing off the state's mute swans, majestic but invasive birds they blame for trashing the Chesapeake Bay. >> Well, well. Gee whiz, here I thought there were a myriad of reasons - not the least of which were human. However, now that we know the true & only cause of what's really degrading the bay everything will be made all better! Gail Frantz Old Hanover Rd Reisterstown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================