Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 08:20:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: New Year birds Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Good Morning and Happy New Year, First birds of 2004: #1Canada Geese (heard shortly after midnight on Jug Bay) Yard birds: Great Horned Owl (heard at dawn) Turkey Vulture Tundra Swans -- 5 flying over my house Ring-billed Gull (flyover) White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Cooper's Hawk (just harassed the yard birds so that's it for now). Off to hit some Dunkirk "hotspots." Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD piwa@earthlink.net http://nestbox.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================