Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:43:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Tufted Duck Cell Phone Net A Success ! In-Reply-To: <002101bf70fa$696ab900$705afea9@darius> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Great news, all. I'll be looking for the bird tomorrow (not real early, however)! My cell phone is: 301-502-7325 Would appreciate any updates and will gladly reciprocate. Thanks. Phil At 06:32 PM 02/06/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Well, thanks to Dave Czaplak and the Tufted Duck Phone net, Paula and I = saw >our Life Bird Tufted Duck today. Amy Hoffman and the Harvey's phoned us. >We phoned another Virginia couple we exchanged numbers with at Belle Hav= en >Marina. We arrived at the pull off (on the left if you're heading south= ), 6 >miles south of South Street in Alexandria, at about 2:00 PM and Dave qui= ckly >got me on the bird, which was at rest most of the time, though the Tuft = was >clearly visible along with the brilliant white flanks. While we were th= ere >a couple that had driven up from Richmond, Virginia just happend to be >driving by, saw the scopes, stopped. They were very happy when they foun= d we >were viewing the Tufted Duck. They had given up, and were heading home. > >Finally, a little after 3:00 PM, the bird had drifted east and north far >enough to no longer be viewable at this location. I drove back up throug= h >Alexandria to see if there were still any birders at the Washington Sail= ing >Marina, but could not find anyone still looking. Anyway, I'm in favor of= any >technology that keeps me from missing life birds. Everybody, go buy cel= l >phones. > >Dave, thank you very much for finding this bird ! Amy and the Harvey's = , >thanks for calling ! > >Good Birding, > >Darius Ecker (eckerd@prodigy.net) > >Columbia, Maryland > >========================= ================================================ >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >========================= ================================================ ========================================================= Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ========================================================= ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================