Hi everyone,
I wanted to send the link to photos of the bird-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw
Any and all comments welcomed, I was hoping to get better images, but
hopefully these will do for something! I will do a more in depth write up
tomorrow, but it has been a long day and I need some sleep!
As far as the landowner situation, it ended on a mostly positive note, he
explained to me that he has had problems with poachers, vandals, and
property being stolen, I spoke with him about options to allow for more
folks to look for the bird but made it clear that he did not want anyone
looking at his fields.
Good birding!
Mikey
Mikey Lutmerding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Croom, MD
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Jared Fisher <Jared.Fisher...>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are few links I've come across this evening that might be of
> interest.
>
> Kimball Garrett's photo gallery of the 2011 California bird that was taken
> by a hunter. Includes side by side specimen comparisons.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/72081027@N05/sets/72157628434955641/
>
> Dave Brown's blog entry about the 2011 Newfoundland bird. Includes
> comparison photos.
> http://birdingnewfoundland.blogspot.com/2011/02/common-snipe.html
>
> Writeup on the identification by Jon Dunn
> http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/docs/abstracts/38-2FP.pdf
>
> Jared Fisher
> Bethesda, MD
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:41 PM, James Tyler Bell <jtylerbell...>wrote:
>
>> Feel free to shoot holes in this photo, which is heavily cropped, and ISO
>> set at 1600. A flock of a couple dozen snipe flew in from the original
>> field to the winter wheat field on the south side of Camp Brown Road. This
>> field is clearly safe for viewing. Anyway, I was snapping away as they flew
>> in to land though they never did. The top bird in the photo had the palest
>> underwings of anything I could pick out though the secondaries don't appear
>> to be broadly edged white as in Mikey's photo. Wishful thinking?
>>
>> Tyler Bell
>> <jtylerbell...>
>> California, Maryland
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* James Tyler Bell <jtylerbell...>
>> *To:* "<mdbirding...>" <mdbirding...>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:19 PM
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [MDBirding] Highly probable COMMON SNIPE St. Mary's County
>>
>> Having just returned from a very frustrating snipe hunt at the
>> aforementioned location, the field is on the edge of a public road so
>> legally, birders have every right to be there and to scope the field. But,
>> with the landowner being that adamant, you have to tread softly and try to
>> kiss some @ss. We were speculating from conversations with him that it's
>> possible that a birder posted photographs of the area that included a
>> girlfriend which isn't helping his ugly divorce. Just speculation.
>>
>> Anyway, we tried to conform but finally got fed up and moved to a better
>> viewing location as light was failing. The snipe were far off in the field
>> and moved between grass clumps and wet area giving glimpses of a paler bird
>> that we all hoped was the subject. We never were able to see the underwing
>> as in Mikey's photo so all we can say is that there was a paler snipe in
>> amongst upward of 100+ at one point but down to about 15-20 when light
>> failed.
>>
>> Good luck to anyone else going and try and keep the peace.
>>
>> Tyler Bell
>> <jtylerbell...>
>> California, Maryland
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Mikey Lutmerding <mlutmerding...>
>> *To:* Matt Hafner <hafner.matt...>
>> *Cc:* <mdbirding...>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:16 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [MDBirding] Highly probable COMMON SNIPE St. Mary's County
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I apologize in advance, I was just told in no uncertain terms by the land
>> owner that no one is welcome to look at the fields for this bird, it is
>> private property but I was on the road the whole time and did not think it
>> an issue, I tried to explain the magnitude of the record and he told me
>> that no one was to look at his fields.
>> Sorry for this news,
>> Mikey
>> On Mar 24, 2013 4:28 PM, "Matt Hafner" <hafner.matt...> wrote:
>>
>> Mikey Lutmerding has found a snipe that looks very much like a COMMON
>> SNIPE on Camp Brown Rd in St. Mary's County. Photos from his camera like
>> the one attached have been sent to a few people who think it looks very
>> good! Look at those white underwings!!! Amazing record!!!
>>
>> Directions: on the right side of Camp Brown just past Fairview Rd.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Matt Hafner
>> Forest Hill, MD
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