Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:54:54 -0500 Reply-To: tjharten@concentric.net Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Thomas Harten Subject: Re: Greater White-fronted Goose, Calvert County, MD Comments: cc: md-smas-general@list.audubon.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ospreyers: I had gotten a call about the possible Greater-White Fronted Goose in Dunkirk. I stopped by on my way home from work and found the bird amidst a bunch of Canadas around 5:00 p.m.-good bird for Calvert County! Tom Harten Croom -----Original Message----- From: Arlene Ripley To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:16 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Greater White-fronted Goose, Calvert County, MD >I wasn't really birding today but made a few stops here and there. While at >Battle Creek Cypress Swamp (a few Fox Sparrows, and one angle-wing >butterfly, not a whole lot else but it was midday), I was told about a >phone call they had received about a possible Greater White-fronted Goose >at small lake in the Victoria Station subdivision in the northern part of >the county. I didn't have my scope with me (took it out this morning!) but >did have my bins so I drove to the lake and checked out the mixed flock of >Canadas, scaup, Ring-necked Ducks, Mallards and various hybrids. Sure >enough way on the other side there was a pretty plausible looking GWF >goose. I went home and retrieved the scope (that'll teach me). On second >observation, the bird had all the characteristics of a Greenland adult, >Anser albifrons flavirostris. The bill was orange with pale tip, the legs >were orange, and when the bird raised itself from the water, flapping its >wings the heaving barring on the chest was obvious. The bird did not take >flight so I was not able to observe other features such as white rump >band. It was slightly smaller than the surrounding Canadas. > >Directions to this lake: From Route 4 from the north, pass through Dunkirk >and the Chaneyville Road stoplight. The next street is Skinner's Turn >Road. Turn left and follow the road a short distance to the Victoria >Station subdivision. Turn left into the subdivision onto Lake Shore Road. >The first right will be Cannery Road. Turn right and drive down to where >there are tennis courts on the left. You can park along the edge of this >road. The lake is visible from here and it is just a short walk to the >edge. This is really the only good spot to stop and the rest of the lake >shore is private property with no access with parking that I could see. > >Earlier in the day, I was in North Beach (again not birding) but I always >drive by the boardwalk area and the numbers of ducks on the bay and in the >sky was truly awesome. It looked to be huge raft of scaup but I'm sure >other birds were mixed in. I felt like I was at a wildlife refuge. Will >have to run back over there tomorrow. > > > > >////// Arlene Ripley >| || Calvert County, MD >| 0 || aripley@nestbox.com >| || http://www.nestbox.com > || > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================