Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:25:52 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bill Schreitz Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Pond Swan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Fred, Along Arlene's line of thinking, would recordings of various species of swan calls induce the mystery swan at Schoolhouse Pond to speak to us? It might be fun to try, but would there be any downside to the effort? Bill WILLIAM B SCHREITZ CABINETMAKER INC 1806 VIRGINIA STREET ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21041 cabmkrwbs@erols.com -----Original Message----- From: Arlene Ripley To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Schoolhouse Pond Swan >Just wondering Fred, have you heard the swan vocalize at all? I wonder if >this would help solve the mystery about this bird? > >///////// Arlene Ripley >| || Calvert County, MD >| 0 || aripley@nestbox.com >| || http://www.nestbox.com > || > >At 09:01 AM 2/8/01, Fred Shaffer wrote: >>I just wanted to add some observations concerning the now famous swan >>at Schoolhouse Pond. Regarding the yellow in the bill, as the photo in the >>paper showed, it does not extend across the top of the bill. However, it >>is much more extensive than the "maximum" yellow for a Whistling Swan shown >>in the Sibley Guide. Also, it does extend down to a point on the "lip" of >>the bill. These two points are not really clear in the photograph. In >>addition, two mute swans appeared at the pond last week and the Swan in >>question is very comparable in size to these two birds. Finally, the bill >>shape is not that of a Tundra Swan. > >======================================================================= >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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================