Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:50:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: FW:Regarding the EAWP 3-25-04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mary, I hate to be argumentative but questions about early Pewees come up almost every year. Did you consider other possibilities for the source of the song you heard? One of the best imitations done by starlings is the Eastern Wood-Pewee. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Fran Saunders To: Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:21 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] FW:Regarding the EAWP 3-25-04 > It was heard from Heritage Island around 10:30 AM. I was conducing my > weekly bird survey with Dhananjaya Katju of the DC Department of > Health - Fisheries and Wildlife. I also think I heard it here at > USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center probably within a week before that. I see > from the yellow book the earliest arrival date is April 17. Wow, I guess > that is an "early bird" > > Mary M. Paul > USGS PWRC - BELTSVILLE LAB > c/o BARC - EAST BLDG 308 > 10300 BALTIMORE AVE > BELTSVILLE, MD 20708 > 301-497-5725 (office) > 301-497-5624 (fax) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================