Maryland Ospreyites - First, I thought you all would like to see this message from last week from our "good" neighbor and Bowie Wild Bird Center owner, Malcom Doying--Malcom lives about 2 miles from us as the crow (er, siskin) flies. From: OldCelt100@aol.com Message-ID: <0.529f95cd.2555dad7@aol.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:26:15 EST Subject: Pine Siskins To: PDavis@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Had a flock (6) of pine siskins at the nyjer feeder at hone last Sunday. I gave them directions to your house. Sounds like they made a wrong turn. Malcolm Second , here's another message from today from another "good" neighbor and Anne Arundel County Bird Club member, Peter Hanan--also less than 2 miles away ... >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:22:49 -0500 >From: Peter Hanan <phanan@erols.com> >To: "DAVIS, PHIL" <pdavis@ix.netcom.com> >Subject: GAMBRILLS SISKINS > >HELLO PHIL & BARBARA > >THE SISKINS HAVE ARRIVED IN GAMBRILLS. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIVE IN THE >UP SCALE COMMUNITY OF DAVIDSONVILLE, WITHOUT SISKINS, A BRIEF >DESCRIPTION MIGHT HELP. THEY ARE SMALL STREAKED BIRDS JUST A LITTLE >SMALLER THAN A GOLDFINCH WITH YELLOW WING BARS. SO CLOSE BUT SO FAR... >GOT TO GO THINK A CROSSBILL JUST CAME IN.... > >PETER Come on guys, cease and desist !!! This really is not funny ... the joke is over !!!! You've had your laugh. Enough!!! Save your energy. By the way, since there was no point in staying home today to watch our bird feeders ... Barbara and I tried for the Indiana Common Crane ... Well, today was first time in two and a half weeks that it was not following it's regular pattern. We dipped !!! What they don't tell you on the RBA or Indiana Audubon web site is that someone breached etiquette and went into the field today to try and see the bird when it was in swale. It flushed and was not reliably relocated for the rest of the day. This happened about 30 minutes before we got there. Now, if we had just not stopped to eat breakfast ... DRATS! Also, today was the first day of shotgun hunting season, so the cranes were much more skittish and patterns changed. Also, some of the favorite fields had been plowed this week. Nice place, anyway. Maybe we should have stayed home to watch for some REAL siskins !!! Phil ================================================ Phil Davis home: PDavis@ix.netcom.com Davidsonville, Maryland USA work: PDavis@OAO.com Greenbelt, Maryland USA ================================================