Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:51:03 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mark Hoffman Subject: What a week! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/18/01 1:32:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ringler@QIS.NET writes: > This [Mississippi Kite] was a state bird for the three of us. Mark was so ecstatic that he said > he was going to quit birding to spend more time with his wife and son. Bob -- Amy found this almost as amusing as I did. Hey, I was only away 6 days last week at the World Series, OC on Wed, Fort Smallwood on Thursday and Patuxent on Friday. What's the problem?!? My son refers to me as "that man who comes and visits once in awhile". Now only if I could get Amy thinking the same way ... Seriously, I would like to thank several folks, for what has been an amazing three-day period, with a Worcester County bird (Pacific Loon, #349) and state-bird (Mississippi Kite, #379). The latter is a species which was number 2 on the "10 most wanted" list and frustrated me no end. I'm still on a natural high. I'm going to miss those late-May days at Fort Smallwood, but wait a minute, I still need swallow-tailed ... Thanks to George Armistead, Marshall Iliff, Kathy Klimkiewicz and Jane Coskern. Good Birding, Mark Hoffman Sykesville, MD Mhoff36100@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================