Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:15:29 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: Golden Eagle at Blackwater (& some DE birds) Comments: cc: voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MDOsprey, On my way back home to Ocean City I stopped at Blackwater NWR to scan for my most overdue MD year bird -- Golden Eagle. In less than 30 minutes I found a gorgeous immature over the Key Wallace/Egypt Rd. intersection, which gave scope views for 20 minutes as it soared overhead. Also 12 Bald Eagles in the air at once. Year bird #318. From there I defected to Delaware, where the female Tufted Duck was (with one Canvasback) the only Aythya on Spring Lake in Rehobeth. Nice bird. Also in DE there were 3 imm. Brown Pelicans at Indian River Inlet. About 1 mi north of the MD line on Fenwick Island 5000 roosting Snow Geese on the bayside contained one Ross's-sized bird that I judged a hybrid, based on the slightly large size (close to Ross's, but not quite as small), the small grinning patch, the slightly concave line where the bill met the face, and the ferrous staining about the face that I have never seen on a pure Ross's, but which is common on Snows. Best, Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com Ocean City, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================