Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:58:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Yes - Tufted Duck In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000214080917.008043a0@csa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed If anyone refinds the duck in MD waters, please sound the alarm!!! Thanks. Phil At 08:09 AM 02/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:32 PM 2/13/00 -0500, you wrote: > >As Mary Ann T. reported, the Tufted Duck was refound this morning > >(Sunday, 2/13) in Washington Channel, opposite Hains Point (almost all > >the way near the point, hugging the stone wall of Ft. McNair(?) with a > >number of Lesser Scaup). > > > >I forgot to mention to Rob Hilton that there was a race going on, and > >parking was getting tight while I was there. I assume it has cleared up > >by now (12:30), though I know that it hampered views by others later in > >the morning. > >The race was over when we arrived at around 9:45. Parking was no problem. > > > > >I had other commitments, and couldn't stick around, and Dave Muzur. was > >going to try to stay around as long as he could. Hopefully the bird has > >been cooperative. > >Thanks for calling, Paul!! Thanks Dave for finding it!! > >It was visible until SS Icebreaker, I mean the cruise ship, Odyssey, >ploughed down the channel. Many Scaup took off, the Tufted Duck evidently >with them. The bird was not seen between after about 11:45. At 12:20 or >so, when Lisa Shannon and I, the last birders, left, nobody had refound it. > Ironically as the ship was cruising I was leaving a message with somebody >that we were looking at it. > >We located two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the ice before the ship >began its voyage, and Dave Czaplak found a first-winter Iceland Gull flying >up-channel toward the Maine Avenue waterfront/marina area. > >After the Odyssey had disappeared, the portion of the ice nearest to us at >East Potomac Park was slowly moving north/west, up-channel, with its clutch >of sitting gulls. The scene was faintly ridiculous, with the gulls being >wafted left-ward on the sheet of sitting ice. > > >A big thanks to Dave M. for finding the bird this morning. I had all > >but given up on the bird and was searching through the gulls instead. > >Found 3 Lesser Black-backed, but no white winged gulls. > > > >Best, > >Paul Pisano > >cheep@erols.com > >Rob Hilton >robert@csa.com >BethesdaSilverSpring > >======================================================================= >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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================