Re: Mid Atlantic fall migration hub. yeah. right.

Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:42:20 -0500


Sheesh....I think this guy actually wants us to feel SORRY for him!  Good 
grief, Greg!  Grin.  (How's that for alliteration???)

Norm

> 
> Howdy All!
> 
> It's sure good to read everyone ELSE's fall rpts.  My backyard in
> southern Calvert County is certainly NOT currently a migration
> hub.  Am I just spoiled from traveling, or is this list really
> pretty pathetic?
> 
> Backyard 9/28/98, Monday evening:
> 
> 200  Laughing Gull
> 12   Ring-billed Gull
> 1    Red-shouldered Hawk (resident)
> 8    Eastern Bluebird
> 1    Carolina Wren
> 1    Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
> 1    Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
> 1    Blue Jay
> 
> Backyard 9/29/98, Tuesday morning:
> 6    Laughing Gull
> 1    Fish Crow
> 1    Gray Catbird
> 1    Eastern Bluebird
> 1    Carolina Chickadee
> 2    White-throated Sparrow (ARRIVAL-yippee!  A new migrant!)
> 
> I did count 14 Cloudless Sulphurs in the front yard at one time
> on Sunday afternoon...
> 
> Reading other stories of OPM (other people's migrants),
> 
> Greg Miller
> 
> 
> 



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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net