Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:14:49 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Re: Late Post: Wash. Co. Fox Sparrow on 11/12-14/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy, thanks for the reminder on Purple Finch ID; it explains why we think we see so many more "females" of this species. (You also say your House Finches have disappeared. Well, I wouldn't mind if my House Finches disappeared if it meant the Tufted Titmice came back.) Northern finches are great, but it will be very interesting to see how our common species are faring in this year's Christmas Bird Count tallies. Janet Millenson Potomac, MD (Montgomery County) janet@twocrows.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================