Tim, Ellen:

It depends very much on whether they have ever been birding in the US 
before.  Several years ago I had the opportunity to take out a serious 
Britsh birder who had never been here.  He was extremely excited to see Blue 
Jays, Cardinals, Orioles, Bald Eagles, etc. Thus my first suggestion would 
be to determine their previous experience.

Stephen Hult
Edgewater

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From: "Tim Boucher" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Birding in mid-July


Tim has been asked to take some visiting birders out in mid-July. We are 
told that these are very serious birders and so I'm wondering why they would 
even want to do any birding in mid-July - if they are very serious birders, 
surely they must know that this isn't a good time to be birding around here. 
They are going to be visiting from Europe for business reasons, and the 
people who are hosting them are just assuming that they will want to go 
birding.

So on the assumption that they want to go birding, in mid-July, we are 
trying to figure out what might be worthwhile.

We don't know if they will be willing to do very early morning, but it is 
hard to imagine anything worthwhile past midmorning. We were thinking 
Huntley Meadows.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Ellen Paul
Tim Boucher
Chevy Chase MD