Folks, Dianne Ingram is with the National Park Service, working in the C&O Canal National Park. Check your records and see if you can be of any assistance to her--sounds like another battle against the inevitable, but who knows? We may yet prevail against poorly sited cell towers! Please respond to Dianne directly. Her e-mail address is below. Norm ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:24:42 -0500 From: Dianne_Ingram@nps.gov (Dianne Ingram) Subject: Re[2]: birds at great falls I'm putting together a list of bird species recorded for the Great Falls area of C&O Canal to provide input to the EA for a Bell Atlantic Mobile cell tower proposed for Great Falls Park, VA. C&O Canal (MD) and Great Falls Park (VA) are listing potential impacts to MIGRATORY Birds. Below is what I've got recorded so far. Do you have or know of someone who has documented additional migratory species for the area between towpath mile 10.5 and 15.0? If you can list any additional species on email then send whatever documentation is available by mail, I would be grateful. We are going on the stance of documented impacts to migratory birds flying into tall cell towers. Bald eagle Yellow-billed cuckoo Chimney swift Ruby-throated hummingbird Eastern wood-pewee Acadian flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested flycatcher Red-breasted nuthatch White-breasted nuthatch Brown creeper Northern parula Winter Wren Hermit Thrush American robin Solitary vireo Yellow-throated vireo Red-eyed vireo Am. goldfinch Even. grosbeak Yellow-rumped warbler Yellow-throated warbler Cerulean warbler Black and white warbler Louisiana waterthrush Summer tanager Scarlet tanager Indigo bunting Fox sparrow White-throated sparrow =============== Norm Saunders Colesville, MD osprey@ari.net