Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:37:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: White Pelican at Schoolhouse Pond MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone tell me where Schoolhouse pond is and if it might be a good sight for photographing birds mostly interested in wood duck. Many thanks Greg Downing Manchester MD gregdowning@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Shaffer" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:39 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] White Pelican at Schoolhouse Pond > Thanks to the message from Jim Stasz, I saw the White Pelican at > Schoolhouse Pond late in the afternoon. I picked a bad day not to take my > morning walk around the pond! I saw the Pelican through both my scope and > binoculars. It was towards the rear of the pond, sleeping for ten minutes > or so (as it had much of the afternoon). It then stirred and swam very > slowly towards the center of the pond. I got great looks at the bird's > pinkish-orange bill with the hook on the tip. It dwarfed the nearby geese > and even made a nearby Great Blue Heron look small. Unfortunately, after > several minutes a large flock of geese to the left noisely flew off and the > Pelican flushed. It flew impressively over the pond and past the County > office building. It headed towards the east. I waited by the pond for > another ten or fifteen minutes as it got dark, but I did not see the > Pelican again. Also at the Pond were the usual Canada Geese, gulls, > Shovelers, and Wood Ducks. > > Fred Shaffer > Crofton, 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================