This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CD4DC58A3BF3F3023BD00715 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Speaking of Little Egret, can someone refer me to a good reference for the field marks for this one? I spend a lot of time looking at waders, so maybe someday... Marcia Watson-Whitmyre Cecil County Miliff@aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't resist throwing in my two bits on Rick's TOP TEN LIST. With a few > obvious exceptions, my list came out quite different, but that's the fn of > this sort of thing I think. I'll let loose with my own here, ranked from most > likely to least. > > 1. EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE (no argument on that one!) > 2. SHINY COWBIRD (same story) > 3. SAY'S PHOEBE (records from almost EVERY other eastern state, including that > PA bird this past winter) > 4. GARGANEY (records from around the country in April/May - _probably_ wild. > At least a few VA reports and the recent Brigantine bird) > 5. TOWNSEND'S WARBLER (annual on the East Coast in late fall, look for this > one at Assteague in, say, November or feeders anywhere thereafter) > 6. SLATY-BACKED GULL (Maryland has some good landfills...) > 7. BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD (yeah Gary!) > 8. GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE (Old report with no data, used to be more frequent in > the East but still possible) > 9. WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD (with some El Nino hurricanes or a few more late > August pelagic trips) > 10. LITTLE EGRET (We are overlooking some for sure) > > I want to go on...Western Meadowlark would certainly come next (if not > earlier) and the shorebird possibilities go on and on. Ditto on seabirds. > And if we could only figure out where those swallows go after they leave Cape > May... > > Best, > > Marshall Iliff > miliff@aol.com > > In a message dated 98-06-11 04:44:21 EDT, you write: > > << For almost a decade a few of us have played the game of predicting > the next ten birds that will show up in Maryland. This year, rather than > call a dozen people and ask them for their lists, I am posting mine on > Osprey in the hope that many of them will follow suit. > The following list does not include all the birds that are > legitimate candidates to be found. If there were regular pelagic trips > running out of Maryland, and if Gary Griffith's hummingbird network could > be extended to the entire state, it would be possible to make a reasonable > list made up of only seabirds and hummingbirds. If the Hart-Miller > impoundment was in coastal Worcester County it would be possible to make a > list of almost nothing but shorebirds. To some extent, this list reflects > not only patterns of bird vagrancy, but birder behavior. > I have tried to leave off all birds that have been reported but > not > ruled on by the MOSRC. It is possible that some of the birds may not be > accepted, in which case they would be worthy additions. The list: > > EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE [any day now] > WESTERN MEADOWLARK [there is probably one every year] > SHINY COWBIRD [not that I'm thrilled about it...] > BROWN BOOBY [will be found sitting on the 4th Street flats someday] > REDDISH EGRET [if more people birded Ocean City...] > SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER [a Hart-Miller bird] > BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD [keep those reports coming Gary] > BELL'S VIREO [overdue] > GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE [probably overdue] > BAND-TAILED PIGEON [there are about 50 records east of the Mississippi and > the one quirky prediction I indulge myself in > every year] > > Rick > > "Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being > offensive." Josephine Tey > > Rick Blom > rblom@blazie.com > Bel Air, Maryland --------------CD4DC58A3BF3F3023BD00715 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Marcia Watson-Whitmyre Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Marcia Watson-Whitmyre n: Watson-Whitmyre;Marcia org: University of Delaware adr: 234 Hullihen Hall;;University of Delaware;Newark;Delaware;19716;USA email;internet: mww@udel.edu title: Assistant Director for Academic Policies Administration tel;work: 302-831-6656 tel;fax: 302-831-8745 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------CD4DC58A3BF3F3023BD00715--