Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:03:07 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marian Dodson Subject: Bird Feeding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm sure that lots of us enjoy feeding the birds so I just wanted to share a little nugget I got at the feed store. I'm being told that for several reasons, the drought being only one, black oil sunflower seeds will be going up in price in the near future. They are expecting the wholesale price to be over a $1 more than they are selling the 50 LB bags for now. Can anybody verify this information? I also asked about seed that hadn't been sprayed with chemicals that were causing blackbird deaths in So Dakota. They are going to check into availability of "guaranteed" not-sprayed seed and let me know what's available. I know that Chesapeake Audubon is canceling its fundraising annual bird seed sale because of its inability to find a suitable, reasonably priced source for feed that wasn't grown at the expense of birds in another part of the country. I would appreciate knowing if anyone knows of a wholesale source they could use. Thanks, Marian Dodson Glen Burnie, MD MJD405@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================