Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:16:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Pierce Subject: Re: Pileated Woodpeckers In-Reply-To: <401C0631.DB907AA4@olg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I already tried that and was shot down. Another problem with it is location. If you're sleeping in MD but dream you see the bird in VA, where do you count it? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Pierce (DNRC)- fpierce@avialantic.com Mid-Atlantic Aviation on the Web - http://www.avialantic.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On > Behalf Of Beth Kantrowitz > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:47 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Pileated Woodpeckers > > > Last night I had a dream where I saw a Pileated Woodpecker perched on > a tree, very close by, and no one could understand why I was so > excited. For years and years the Pileated was my "he just left before > you got here" bird, my "if they're so darn common why haven't I ever > seen one?" bird, until I finally got two sightings about six years ago > in Charlottesville, VA, both in-flight and distant, but unmistakeable. > Still, I crave a sighting of a perched Pileated, where I can actually > SEE the bird and have time to look at it closely. The dream really > bothered me, and then I woke up and read the last Osprey digest with > someone seeing their 4th Pileated and others agreeing how amazing they > are! > > Do dream sightings count on my life list? :) > > -Beth Kantrowitz, Hyattsville > > > P.S. Could I possible be seeing a female Purple Finch among the house > sparrows at my balcony feeder? The bird doesn't quite match any of > the possible true sparrows, with her head pattern and heavily streaked > breast and belly with no central spot. > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ---------------------------------------------------- > This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================