Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:22:54 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Birding in the rain Comments: To: voice@audubonnaturalist.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I took a very brief walk along the power line on Tucker Lane, Ashton, Montgomery County, MD this morning (wasn't raining when I got up!), and though I didn't see a whole lot, I did have a bush full of sparrows. It was an odd mix too, with Field Sparrows dominating, but also one Fox Sparrow and a lone VESPER SPARROW mixed in. This species is a hard to find one in Montgomery County (and getting harder with habitat loss). Stay dry... Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================