Fran and others, I like the list regardless of competitors. We can always be in competition with the greatest competitors we know ... OURSELVES. We can say ... "Last year at this time, we found a Pacific Loon ... What will we find this year ?" or "Last year at this time, we were at 300 species and this year we are only at 290 ... get out there and find some birds folks." Theres my 2 cents. J.B. > X-Authentication-Warning: ari.ari.net: majordom set sender to owner-mdosprey@ARI.Net using -f > From: "Fran Saunders" <saunderf@ARI.Net> > To: mdosprey@ARI.Net > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:52:04 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > Subject: [MDOsprey] Composite Lists > > Greg hit a chord. Ding, ding...... > > Hmmmmm, maybe we have have educational fun. Do we > continue with the MD comp list? It will only work if we can > challenge another State. > > However, do I see twinkling starlings in the sky aiming for an > ABA comp list? Oh ho ho.....but again, we need to have a > challenge, I think. > > I'm game if we all REALLY do want to keep this up for another > year. Let's hear it from the rest of you! It's best if we can set > this up before the New Year. > > Fran > > -------------------------------- > Fran Saunders > Web Site Director > Maryland Ornithological Society > Silver Spring, Maryland > webmaster@mdbirds.org > http://www.MDBirds.org ====================================================== ___ _________/ \_________ Home (304) 292-5072 /- - - - - O O - - - - -\ Work (304) 293-4832 \________'\_v_/`________/ ext. 4456 /_|_|_\ ^ ^ John B. Churchill, M.S. GIS Analyst West Virginia University Natural Resources Analysis Center __ ______ \___/ \__^_ [ ) o\ `__]____)'--'* ]_ ]_ Support Evolution, ... destroy a weakling ! http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc/ ======================================================