> Date:         Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:54:54 -0500
> Reply-to:     tjharten@concentric.net
> From:         Thomas Harten
> <tjharten@CONCENTRIC.NET>
> Subject:      Re: [MDOSPREY] Greater
> White-fronted Goose, Calvert County, MD
> To:           MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>
> 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 <aripley@NESTBOX.COM>
> To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> <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
> >    ||
> >
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