Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:05:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: Canada Goose on Osprey Platform In-Reply-To: <000001c41035$cbdfa800$de7fa3d1@DOWNSTAIRS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For the past couple of weeks, a Canada Goose has been periodically flying up to the last year's nest on our Osprey platform. Osprey have = been in the area this year but definitely have not settled onto our platform. Today, that silly Goose laid her first egg up there (the egg is visible = from our dining room. She is so proud! The Gander has been circling in the = water below the platform when ever she is up there. I suppose he is proud = too. I wonder what "our" Osprey will do when they arrive. In recent years = "our" Osprey have tended to be late arrivals. Nest starts were April 9th in = 2001 and April 12th in 2002. Looks like there may be a bit of conflict out = there this year. Other birds here on Leeds Creek today include 5 Hooded Mergansers, one Red-breasted Merganser, and a Pied Billed Grebe that showed up = yesterday and is still around. Two Great Black-backed Gulls lit on the creek = briefly this morning. They only come up this far about once a year. And - the Pine Siskin at the thistle feeder was seen again this morning. Les Roslund Lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton MD 21601 =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 =========================================================================