Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:28:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Fw: Blue-phased Ross' Goose from US 50. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following message is being relayed for a birder who is not currently on the Osprey. Stan Arnold -----Original Message----- From: john maloney To: blackrail@earthlink.net Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:11 PM >hi, I took a drive to blackwater refuge today. the highlight birds for me >were golden eagle {2},brownheaded nuthatch {2},and green wing teal [10+]. in >the field near the visitor center were 75+ pipits next to the main road. I >also went to ocean city inlet and saw a great cormorant flying. 2 red knots >were on the rocks with the purple sandpipers and turnstones. on the way back >I stopped at a pond near mile marker 104 on rte. 50, on the north side of >the road. there were about 1000 snow geese, 99% were white phase. thats what >made the blue phase ROSS' GOOSE stand out. I watched it through my scope >for a while and all the field marks in the sibley book were visible. It was >a great day. > john maloney > laurel, md. > howard co. >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================