Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:14:36 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Re: Cicada celebration MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The 17-year cicadas represent a golden feeding opportunity for Mississippi Kites. Maybe next year will be the time we lure one across the Potomac into Montgomery Co. Although it won't be the first, it may be the best opportunity in a long while. Watch the treetops. Paul O'Brien Rockville, Mont. Co., MD pobrien776@aol.com In a message dated 8/27/03 3:52:02 PM, dangeo@EROLS.COM writes: << Fred's calculations agree with mine. My child who was 5.5 with the last batch will be 22.5 next spring; time for a bumper bug crop. While working in my garden, I am finding many pre-emergent cicadas, as many as four to seven in the top five inches of a sq ft of ground. I have been assuming they were the 17 yr group getting ready for next year. Seemed rather late for them to be this year's annual bugs. I would expect a feeding frenzy from all birds big enough to eat them. Georgia McDonald Towson, MD dangeo@erols.com Fred Pierce wrote: > > Listening to them just now reminded me that the 17-year variety should > be popping out next spring if my calculations are correct. I wasn't > paying >> ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================