Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 06:56:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Byrnes Subject: Re: Dovekies In-Reply-To: <022920041122.8908.143b@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable After reading Norm's post about the high number of Dovekies seen = yesterday, my memory kicked into gear. At the risk of labeling myself as an Ol = Coot, I remember the supposedly first ever Ocean City Christmas Count, led by = Chan Robbins, on Dec 30, 1978, in which we had literally hundreds of = Dovekies. The ocean was like a mill pond, which allowed us to reach such high = numbers. Perhaps someone with access to the numbers can recall how many Dovekies = we actually had. In my notes I recalled Rich Rowlett and Paul Dumont were = on the trip, plus I think Steve Simon. Anybody with the actual numbers? -Joe Byrnes Columbia, Md joseph.byrnes@comcast.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================