Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:55:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Meghan Tice Subject: Re: Starlings vs. Pewees MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last spring I got excited, rather tricked, a couple of times by what I th= ought was an early Pewee. =20 A Starling would recite a perfect peee-a-weeeee... peee-oooo from a yard = tree. This past winter, =20 there was a Starling that would sit on a telephone wire in Glenn Dale mim= icking a list of species' =20 songs that I think I wrote down in my notes at the time. The bird's repe= rtoire included Red-bellied =20 Woodpecker, as I recall. Will have to search the pages... Interesting t= hat widespread Starling =20 individuals seem to be quite fond of the Pewee's song. Meghan Tice Bowie, Maryland cecropia13@msn.com =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 =========================================================================