Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:12:31 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Patty Craig Subject: Re: Pelican timing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, When the Brown Pelicans first started coming to St. Mary's County, namely Point Lookout, they would be there only in the afternoon. Some birders who only birded during the morning hours took years to see one! The last few years you can see them at any time. Good Birding, Patty Craig Dameron, Md pattycraig@mail.ameritel.net Marshall Iliff wrote: > Hi all, > > I responded privately to Harvey about timing of pelicans at Kent Narrows, and > probably other sites along the Bay. It is my ASSUMPTION that many (most?) of > these birds are dispersing northward from the nesting vicinity (Dorchester > County) during the day and returning back to Dorchester to roost. I am not > sure exactly where they roost in Dorchester, but I assume it is on protected > islands and sandbars. There simply aren't many of those farther north in the > Bay with the exception of the Poplars and Bodkin Island, and those clearly > aren't major roosting areas (yet). I'd be interested to know what time of > day some of these pelicans have been seen - all mine have been after noon but > before 6 pm. Last Thursday when I saw 16 at North Beach at 4 pm there was > only one remaining at 6 pm. > > Just guessing of course, but Danny Poet's post seems to reinforce that guess. > > Much to my surprise I heard from Paul Spitzer the other day that he saw a > small flock of eight pelicans 15 June flying high (sev hundred feet up) up > the Choptank from Windy Hill Landing, Trappe, Talbot Co., looking east > towards Caroline County. This would be a first Caroline Co. record. > > This continues to amaze me... > > Best, > > Marshall Iliff > miliff@aol.com > Annapolis, MD > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================