Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:30:33 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: Dovekies In-Reply-To: <000501c3febb$096c0740$d3413744@cc529315d> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 2/29/04 6:56 AM, Joe Byrnes at joseph.byrnes@COMCAST.NET wrote: > 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? The Audubon web site has all the historical count data. According to that data, there were no Dovekie on the Ocean City, MD 1978/79 Christmas Count. Perhaps it was another year. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================