I am forwarding this message on behalf of Bill Whan,
who is having some list-serve difficulties.
Brad Sparks


>       Both red and white-winged crossbills are showing up
> in good numbers
> very early. Birding lists in New Brunswick, Ontario,
> Maine, New
> Hampshire, even Maryland and New Jersey are carrying
> unusual reports. It
> may be worthwhile keeping an eye out here. Atlasers
> should be aware that
> crossbills nest whenever they take a notion.
>       Other gleanings from
> http://www.birdingonthe.net/birdmail.html
> include kvetching, some of it hilarious, about the
> price of black oil
> sunflower seeds on MDOsprey (along with less funny
> warnings about an
> invasive freshwater alga lovingly called 'rock
> snot'). FloridaBirds has
> some interesting conversation on black skimmer nests
> and human
> disturbance. Finally, for those who find old stories
> comforting, Parker
> River NWR is charged in the Massachusetts list with
> ignoring habitat
> needs of shorebirds. If you are interested in
> reading any of these, do
> so quickly as birdingonthe.net carries only the
> fifty most recent posts
> to each list.
>       I'm visiting Jack Siler's indispensable site more
> recently, because--as
> I hear it--those of us with roadrunner accounts who
> subscribe to
> ohio-birds aren't getting it because some other user
> of the Miami U
> system has triggered a virus alert or something. I
> just tried to send
> this message and found I can't post anything
> directly, either!
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
>
>

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.

You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]