Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:26:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: White-fronted Goose Comments: cc: Peter Bono Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Following Jim Felley's post this morning, we took a quick run to downtown Washington after lunch and saw the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in with about 100 Canadas in a fenced-off part of the mall on the south side of the Reflecting Pool just east of the Lincoln Memorial. It was grazing greedily (obviously ignoring the 'newly planted seed' sign put up by the NPS), then sitting unconcernedly by itself. By the time we had walked all around the Reflecting Pool, Constitution Gardens and the Vietnam Memorial, the bird had disappeared from where first seen at 2 p.m. Only other birds of note were 3 AMERICAN WIGEON on the small Island in the pond in Constitution Gardens. The Tidal Basin was covered with gulls eating dead fish on the residual ice, but we could not get anything besides the 3 usual gull species. Herring Gulls, in every plumage known to the bird guides, constituted 80+% of the flock today. This time there was film in my camera when I photographed the goose. Last time (on January 7) I took some lovely close-up shots (so I thought) through the fence at Hains Point golf course, only to find the film compartment was empty when I opened the camera. Fortunately, Dave Czaplak and some others recorded the bird on that occasion and it looked like their equipment was working. Mike and Joy Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================