James: Send some down our way!! The bugs are getting pretty thick! Hutch coolspring@hotmail.com Adlephi, MD >From owner-mdosprey@ari.net Tue Aug 11 14:39:19 1998 >Received: (from majordom@localhost) > by ari.ari.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA09924; > Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:30:34 -0400 (EDT) >X-Authentication-Warning: ari.ari.net: majordom set sender to owner-mdosprey@ARI.Net using -f >Received: from mtolympus.ari.net (root@mtolympus.ari.net [198.69.192.4]) > by ari.ari.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA09906 > for <mdosprey@ari.net>; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:30:12 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from osprey.ari.net (osprey.ari.net [198.69.194.117]) > by mtolympus.ari.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA15426 > for <mdosprey@ari.net>; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:37:54 -0400 (EDT) >Message-Id: <199808112137.RAA15426@mtolympus.ari.net> >From: "Norm Saunders" <osprey@ARI.Net> >Organization: MD Osprey >To: mdosprey@ARI.Net >Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:36:59 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Subject: Bats? -Reply/w Flycatchers >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) >Sender: owner-mdosprey@ARI.Net >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: mdosprey@ARI.Net > >------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:36:53 -0400 >From: James Marcetich <MarcetiJ@mail.nlm.nih.gov> >To: mdosprey@ARI.Net >Subject: Bats? -Reply/w Flycatchers > >In Colesville it's been a banner year for bats; I get a rather >outstanding flying circus every evening. > >Awhile ago I reported a flycatcher pair in my back yard, that I >eventually identified as great crested flycatchers with the help of >some friendly MDOSPREY people. Would like to update that I >eventually found the nest--in the screech owl box I put up several >years ago. (I frequently hear barred owls and occasionally hear >screech owls from the woods out back, but the screech owls have >thus far ignored by hospitality.) > >The flycatchers fledged and are long gone for several weeks. I >miss them. Don't know how typical it is for them to nest in >human-provided habitat. Hope they'll be back next year. > > James Marcetich > Colesville, MD > >>>> "Hutch&Maret Hutchinson" <coolspring@hotmail.com> 08/06 >10:10 pm >>> >We usually have plenty of bats here in Adelphi, at least two kinds >(larger and smaller) but this year we haven't seen even one! Has >anyone >else noticed a dearth of bats? It can't be a lack of prey bugs >since >the yard is full of swallows, swifts, and martins. Hutch > >Carl Hutchinson >Adelphi, MD >carl_hutchinson@hotmail.com > > >=============== >Norm Saunders >Colesville, MD >osprey@ari.net > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com