Excellent point Zach!
Congrats to the Maryland youth bird
 



Excellent point Zach!

Congrats to the Maryland youth birders. The Chick Burr-ders, the all girl team from Centreville Middle School rock and were the talk of everyone at the WSB award brunch. Congrats also to you, Tom Johnson (although he's from PA) and all your Coastal Cuckoos. Your count of 212 is, as you say, an amazing feat. As a member of the second place team this year (it was time to be beat after winning first place the last two years) I tried to congradulate you on Sunday, but understandably you were always surrounded by well wishers. Although after talking to the Cornell team at the Swap Meet I think you should cut those guys a little slack. They had their hands full this spring with the Ivory Bill. ;)



Jordan Rutter

Silver Spring



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From: Maryland Birds & Birding [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ] On Behalf Of Zachary Baer 



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Subject: [MDOSPREY] WSB: Maryland takes home top honors 



Youth birding in Maryland is alive and well. The young birders from George  



Radcliffes program placed 1st and 2nd in the Middle School division with 150 



species and 148 species. This is an amazing feat for these birders who at  



first had trouble between cardinal blue jay. I believe that George deserves 



a lot of credit for what he has done to youth birding in the state. On  



another note my team, the Coastal Cuckoos, won the high school division with 



212 species and raised over $7,800. This is an amazing feat for our team  



beating Cornell and tying Pete Dunne's team. Overall we came in 3rd place  



and are very happy. I would just like to thank everybody who supported the  



team and youth birding. 



Good birding 



Zach Baer 



Centreville, MD