Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:51:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Leo Weigant Subject: Re: Dovekies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=__PartA081AEF4.0__=" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... --=__PartA081AEF4.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Paul, Your gentle nudge to Bob about the oceanic millpond made me smile at its expression of good friendhip in action. Now if only I could come up with a similarly diplomatic prompt for all those folk writing about "eurasion widgeons" Do you think they also see "rock pidgeons"? Oh well, - - of actually effecting a change, I'd guess my chances rate below a smidgen. Sorry I had to miss this pelagic. I'll look forward to seeing you out there again, soon. Leo >>> PObrien776@AOL.COM 2/29/04 11:31:23 AM >>> Bob, I hate to disagree with you (publicly) but on that day the ocean was indeed like a millpond. It was like a mirror - the first and only Ringler-friendly ocean I shall ever see. Paul O'Brien Rockville, Mont. Co., MD pobrien776@aol.com In a message dated 2/29/04 10:26:10 AM, ringler@QIS.NET writes: > Joe, > The first Ocean City CBC was in 1948. The CBC to which you are > referring was the first Baltimore Canyon CBC led by Rich Rowlett. Of the > 17 species seen that day were 759 Dovekies. > By the way, the ocean is never like a millpond. > > Bob Ringler > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joe Byrnes > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:56 AM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Dovekies > > > 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 > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= --=__PartA081AEF4.0__=-- =========================================================================