Re: Mid Atlantic fall migration hub. yeah. right.
Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:42:20 -0500
Sheesh....I think this guy actually wants us to feel SORRY for him! Good
grief, Greg! Grin. (How's that for alliteration???)
Norm
>
> Howdy All!
>
> It's sure good to read everyone ELSE's fall rpts. My backyard in
> southern Calvert County is certainly NOT currently a migration
> hub. Am I just spoiled from traveling, or is this list really
> pretty pathetic?
>
> Backyard 9/28/98, Monday evening:
>
> 200 Laughing Gull
> 12 Ring-billed Gull
> 1 Red-shouldered Hawk (resident)
> 8 Eastern Bluebird
> 1 Carolina Wren
> 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
> 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
> 1 Blue Jay
>
> Backyard 9/29/98, Tuesday morning:
> 6 Laughing Gull
> 1 Fish Crow
> 1 Gray Catbird
> 1 Eastern Bluebird
> 1 Carolina Chickadee
> 2 White-throated Sparrow (ARRIVAL-yippee! A new migrant!)
>
> I did count 14 Cloudless Sulphurs in the front yard at one time
> on Sunday afternoon...
>
> Reading other stories of OPM (other people's migrants),
>
> Greg Miller
>
>
>
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net