Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:29:11 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Daniel F. McDonald" Subject: Re: Whooper Swan Comments: To: NH.Birds@lists.unh.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi New Hampshire We are monitoring your list from MD in case we get another chance to bird NH. We were up to see the Whitefield Hawk Owl in Feb. Re: whooper swan. We had a possible whooper here in MD in January. You can check into the discussion at MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM by searching the archives for whooper swan January 2001 thru May 2001. I don't know that the experts ever decided if it was a whooper or not. Wonder if yours is the same bird. Georgia McDonald Towson, Baltimore Co. MD dangeo@erols.com gills@norwich.edu wrote: > Can somebody answer a question regarding Whoopers? I have been told by > birders in CT and MA that one cannot count these birds as wild in the east, > as there are so many possible escapes. True? PG > > Paula A. Gills, Director, Learning Support Center > Norwich Univ., Northfield, VT 05663 > (802) 485-2132 e-mail gills@ norwich.edu > > "We must go out and re-ally ourselves to nature every day. > We must make root, send out some little fibre at least > even every winter day." Thoreau > "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" > Emily Dickinson > > > "Natural History > Services" To: New Hampshire Birds > > n.org> cc: > Sent by: Subject: Whooper Swan > owner-NH.Birds@lis > ts.unh.edu > > > 04/26/2001 06:52 > PM > Please respond to > NH.Birds > > > > We received an e-mail at the Audubon Society of New Hampshire from someone > who was birding along the Connecticut River on 4/22 and saw a single swan > they believed to be a Whooper Swan in a flooded field along Route 12A in > North Walpole. They saw it less than 50 yards away and said the yellow and > black pattern on the bill seemed to match the Whooper Swan drawing in > Sibley. No other details. > > Becky Suomala ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================