Hi JB:
My mistake ... that's what I get for transcribing small print by hand
... the second item in my list, below, should have been Worcester
County (i.e., your report) rather than Anne Arundel County.
Thanks for the note!
Phil
At 20:32 02/17/2008, J.B. Churchill wrote:
>Phil Davis wrote:
>
>>Hi Steve, et al.
>>
>>The MD/DCRC database (online on our web page) stopped tracking
>>Northern Shrikes when we took it off the review list in 2001,
>>however, late dates for this species prior to this time, in
>>addition to the two you located, are (in reverse chronological order) ...
>>
>>03/31/1860 DC (arrived on 12/01/1859)
>>03/23/1996 MD/Anne Arundel Co (arrived on 01/14/1996)
>>03/10/1951 MD/Worcester Co (arrived on 03/05/1951)
>>03/08/1991 MD/Frederick Co (arrived on 01/20/1991)
>>03/07/1951 MD/Washington Co (one day wonder)
>>03/01/2001 MD/St. Mary's Co (arrived 01/29/2001
>>
>>Those (above) were birds that stayed into March.
>>
>>There are twelve MD/DCRC database entries for reports or records of
>>birds that were seen in February.
>>
>>Hope this helps ...
>>
>>Phil
>Phil and others,
>
> I'm not sure how this would affect things but for the record ...
> my personal database shows that the Northern Shrike that I saw
> repeatedly at Asseateague Island in 1996 while I stayed at the
> Hungerford House (on Assateague) was seen on 1/14/96, 1/22, 2/10,
> 2/17, 3/20, and 3/23/96. I remembered somebody telling me that
> 3/23 was far and away the latest date because I wrote in my
> database "latest MD record to date !!! (N of DC 14)". N of DC14
> simply means that it was seen north of Dune Crossing 14.
>
>J.B.
>
>
>
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>J. B. Churchill
>Frostburg, Maryland
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