Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 00:56:44 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Betty Conley Subject: Re: Shoveling party MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 02/06/2000 6:04:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, dburggraf@HOTMAIL.COM writes: << For me, one of the most interesting finds of the day was the circle of northern shovelers at West Ocean City pond. It was a little out of seas= on for them, I suppose. But even more interesting was their habit of swimm= ing aggressively around and around in a circle >> Interesting behavior. On another list I read the following which may be o= f interest --- "At this waterhole (Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY), the duck population is holding strong. Wigeons are becoming more prominent with approximately 15 dispersed about. Yesterday, one male ring-necked duck tried to mesh in wi= th the crowd of Mallards, coots and common species gulls. Two Ruddies crazily avoided = the dervishes created by the numerous Shovelers." Dervishes created by the numerous Shovelers? I've never seen this behavi= or but it is very interesting indeed and I for one will be on the lookout. Betty Conley Long Island NY and Colesville MD ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================