Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:32:14 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: Maryland Birder, but not Birding in Maryland ;-) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks! Sometimes events away from home range are worth noting on MDOsprey. This year the Great Texas Birding Classic was held Tuesday, April 29 through-Saturday, May 3. You may recall that several years ago, Marshall Iliff was on the winning team with a record count of 313. At that time the Classic was one day of birding, one day of rest, a second day of birding, another rest day, and a third day of birding. This year, like last, was 5 consecutive days and rest periods were at each team's peril. Those of you who get Audubon Magazine may have seen the article featuring the 2002 TBC in the last issue. Matt Hafner was on the winning team last year when they set the new record of 322. If I recall correctly, the article was subtitled: "5 Days of birding, 10 hours of sleep". This year Matt returned to Texas with Nicholas Block, Pete Hosner and Michael Retter who turned in a new record 329! More about the TBC can be found at: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gtbc/ Kudos to Matt & the rest of the team! Jim Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================