Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:22:52 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Charles Vaughn Subject: Re: birding in cemeteries In-Reply-To: <000701c32584$3e6bd170$0301a8c0@JAM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT When I lived in the Boston area (late 1960s) my wife and I were members of the Brookline Bird Club. In the Spring (and Fall? I don't remember) there were almost daily (early morning) trip to the Mount Auburn Cemetery. I recall that my wife and I joined these trips a couple of times. Great care was taken to not interfere with funeral ceremonies, but, alas, birders being birders. Well, you get the idea. Anyone wanting to see the present spring schedule can look at http://massbird.org/bbc/ Some days there are even morning (6am, which is why we seldom joined the trips) and evening trips on the same day. Some of the listed leaders are people we knew well at the time. At 09:47 PM 5/28/03 -0400, you wrote: >Bob Wasmer -- The Boston-area cemetery you're thinking of is Mount Auburn >Cemetery in Cambridge. It is justifiably famous as a site for finding >migrating warblers in spring. The grounds are practically a park, filled >with exotic trees and with tourists seeking the graves of the many famous >Americans buried there. I have birded there and in other cemeteries without >a problem. As you pointed out, an individual wandering politely with >binoculars is not unwelcome, but I agree that a field trip would be >inappropriate. > >Janet Millenson >Potomac, MD (Montgomery County) >janet@twocrows.com Charles Vaughn 1306 Frederick Avenue Salisbury, MD 21801 410-742-7221 essc@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================