Re: Cape May on Monday

Norm Saunders (osprey@mtolympus.ari.net)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:57:53 -0500


Joe Halpin wrote:

> At the Forsythe NWR there were lots of Snow Geese, Canada Geese,
> Brant, Coots and Dunlin.  I managed to miss most of the exotic birds
> at Cape May but I did see the long earred owls with some help.  The
> CMBO speculation is that the Brown-Chested Martin is dead.  There
> were reports on Monday of the White-Wing and Red Crossbills flying,
> Cave Swallows, the Western Tanager, the Western Kingbird , the
> Nashville Warbler and the MacGillvery's Warbler, but I managed to
> get the locations where they were spotted at the wrong time.

What did you think of Cape May, Joe?  Tempted to move there?  It is 
to birders, in my mind, what the Left Bank of Paris must have been to 
artists in the early 1900s.  Actually, if you're subject to high 
blood pressure, that may NOT be the best place to live!  Grin.

Cheers,
Norm


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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net