Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:20:59 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: marty cribb Subject: Re: another OC Trip MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Ben, Sorry about that I was trying to save space a throwback to the days of main frame computers. Good Birding, Marty Cribb, Smith Island, Md ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Poscover" To: Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] another OC Trip > Marty: I love your posts but would you please not use initials but spell > out the names of the birds. This would sure make things easier for someone > of my skill level. Thank you. > > Ben :Poscover > Towson MD > bposcove@bcpl.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "marty cribb" > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:06 PM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] another OC Trip > > > Hello Everyone, Made another trip to do the OC to Rehoboth thing and met up > with some nice folks from the Baltimore Bird Club. Saturday afternoon at low > tide (still ebbing) had many short looks at 2 adult RAZO as they fed in the > tide line with large #'s of RTLO,COLO, and 1-2 HOGR, had a possible very > quick look at a LITTLE GULL that has been reported earlier but the look was > so brief I hesitate to mention. Also had close-up looks at PUSA, RUTU, and > SAND. Tried again (5X) for the TUDU at Rehoboth with another "K". Ran into a > birder at the OC inlet who metioned he had seen a COMMON BLACK-HEADED GULL > at Spring Lake on Saturday and that it was with all the RING-Billed GULLS. I > did a quick run up to Rehoboth and was fortunate to observe a very nervous > looking 1st winter CBHG that was trying to compete for food with many RBGU. > The two-toned red bill was very prominent as was the broad terminal dark > band on the tail. Some books I have seen show two marks on the side of the > head (ear patch) but this bird only had the one mark as it is shown in the > NGS 2nd edition. I hope this bird sticks around for awhile as it is easy to > spot and in an accessable area. If you go looking for this bird be aware > that this lake is in private property and we should treat the owners and the > parking area with respect. Thanks to all. Good Birding, Marty Cribb, Smith > Island, 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================