Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:41:33 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: FW: a request to post a response onto the list serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fawn Foerster asked that I forward this message to MDOsprey in response to Harry Armistead's earlier post. She is a subscriber but just having some technical problems just now. =20 Norm "My experience during kayak trips on the freshwater to slightly saline tidal creeks (Goldmans, Mattox, Monroe backbay among others) which feed into the lower Potomac near Colonial Beach, Northern Neck, Virgina has mirrored Harry's. In fact, I and the others in different kayaking parties I have led into these creeks have NOT been bitten at all. Which is amazing since mosquitoes are so common. Our conclusion has been that the predacious killifish, dragonfly larva and adults plus swallows are so plentiful that they gobble up all of the female mosquitoes before they have a chance to fly about in search of a blood meal. As a bonus since we are not racing to exit the creeks as voracious skeeters buzz us, we have birded, butterflied and dragonflied at leisure from our boats. Bald eagles, osprey, herons, kingfishers and much more. Wing waves and paddle salutes,=20 Fawn Foerster=20 Park Naturalist=20 Black Hill Regional Park, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Boyds, MD=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================