Re: A response to the South....

Norm Saunders (osprey@mtolympus.ari.net)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:52:49 -0500


On 23 October Kathy Klimkiewicz wrote:

>      It seems to me that MOS and the Audubon chapters, as well as
>      ANS, should all work together for state and local issues. Many
>      of the SMAS members also belong to MOS and can participate in
>      MOS direction etc. SMAS is also much more oriented to birds and
>      field trips for birding than many Audubon chapters.

Kathy,

I'm not putting down the SMAS folks...I certainly hope you didn't get 
that impression from my note.  I'm really impressed with their 
organization and dedication and not a little envious of all those 
dues dollars...grin.

I couldn't agree more about the need now more than ever for the 
various birding organizations to work together.  Unfortunately, most 
of us in these organizations are volunteers with whole other lives 
begging for our attentions as well. Ah well, maybe next year the 
world will become a perfect place...sigh.

Now, let's talk birds!

Perhaps the dates aren't earth-shattering, but we had our first 
backyard HERMIT THRUSH yesterday evening and our first backyard BROWN 
CREEPER of the Fall season today!  I was just looking through my 
records for the year and realized I'm only 22 species shy of seeing 
400 birds this year!  On the down side, we don't have any more trips 
scheduled before the New Year.  Looking through the MD bird-lists I 
figure we can pick up about a dozen birds over on the coast that we 
haven't already seen this year...which still leaves 10 big ones.  I 
know Mike Bowen of the Montgomery Chapter of MOS tried for 3 or 4 
years for this target before he finally broke it last year.  I will 
keep all apprised of our progress..grin.

Cheers,
Norm



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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net