Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:49:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Green Darners and the Internet [was: Re: [MDOSPREY] Harbor Hospital Center/Middle Branch Park, 7/22/03] In-Reply-To: <20030724024431.64456.qmail@web20803.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed There is an easier way to learn about Green Darners ... Go to a good search engine ... I always use the Google Advanced Search ... http://www.google.com/advanced_search Then after ... Find Results with the EXACT PHRASE ... enter ... "green darner". You will then be presented with over 3,000 web pages that reference Green Darners. The first pages presented will probably be most relevant. Or, if you just want to see pictures of Green Darners, use the Google Advanced Image Search ... http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search Again, type in the EXACT PHRASE "green darner" and you will be presented with 177 images of Green Darners. There are several billion pages of information out there on the web. For whatever you want to know about birds, insects, birding locations, or anything, I'd always start with a web search. Using the advance search capabilities, you can combine words and phrases and either/or or excluded words to narrow your searches to zoom in on your subject of interest. Hope this helps ... Phil At 19:44 07/23/2003 -0700, Kevin Graff wrote: >--- Marcus James wrote: > > Hello Kevin > > I was wondering what a Green Darner was. Thanks. > >You can go to a local "Wild Bird Center" store and >order a book about dragonflies and you'll see what >they looks like. It is one of the largest and most >common dragonflies in Maryland. > > Kevin ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================