Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:09:35 GMT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: dbystrak@NETZERO.COM Subject: Many "little sits" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Late last year i thought it would be interesting to see how many spp. i could see with my can firmly planted in one spot. So on Jan. 1 i started a list at the spot i use for the "Big Sit", which is behind my house, overlooking Jug Bay. That day i managed 39 spp. in an hour an a half, and have since gotten it to 52. I will be restricting the "Big Sit" rules further by not using a 17 ft circle. I actually can't anyway, because my seat (an inverted spackling bucket) is on a 5' X 5' deck cantalevered 10' above the marsh! In fact, i will only count it if i am actually sitting at time time i see or hear it. Since we should all have goals in life, i will chose 175 as mine for this effort. Got a good start so far with Tree Sparrow, White-fr. Goose and Snow Goose. danny bystrak bristol, A A Co. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================