Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:46:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: 11/10/00 Tropical/Couch's Kingbird @ Kiptopeke Comments: To: marvadel@egroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This just in from the Virginia Birds list. Please pardon any overlaps in notification! Rob Hilton Bethesda, Md robert@csa.com >Hey All, > >Today at about 9am Brian Sullivan and Calvin Brennan had a Tropical/Couch's >Kingbird fly over the hawk platform at Kiptopeke State Park. The bird was >1st seen flying north over the platform only about 40-55 ft off the ground. >It was then seen again when they had it about an hour later heading south >over the same area. Fairly intense searches haven't yielded another >sighting, but w/ the wind about 15 mph out of the WNW it seems likely the >bird may still be around, and we are hopeful that we will relocate it. I >will send on another message if the bird is refound. Brian and Calvin saw >the bird quite well and could see a nice greenish-backed Kingbird w/ a >brownish tail, lacking any white in the outer tail. I know they've taken >some notes on the bird. I myself haven't gotten all the details yet, but I >wanted to get the word out. > >Hope we can relocate it. Best to all, >-George > >George Armistead >Eastern Shore of VA NWR >Cape Charles, VA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================