Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:32:21 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Speicher, James (NIH/NIAID)" Subject: Return date for chimney swifts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This talk of singing birds has reminded me that i wanted to ask when to expect the chimney swifts to return. I know i have the "yellow book" somewhere in a box in the house not that that is doing me a lot of good. I thought it was nice a couple of years ago when i noticed a few nesting in my chimney, but the word is getting. Last year the number of nesters was unreal and resulted in some losses when chicks fell through the flu into the sealed area behind my insert. I will have to cap this year, but hoped i had a little time left. Anyone have the date they can be expected in central Maryland - my memory tells me that they are late arrivers... Thanks in advance - an off line reply would be fine. Jim Speicher Jspeicher@niaid.nih.gov Bethesda @work:( FRED Co @home:) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================