Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:25:40 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Ruddy duck brood at Hurlock Sewage Ponds Comments: cc: Karen Morley In-Reply-To: <001301c1064a$460713a0$6af21e26@oliver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Stan, et al. - The MD/DC Records Committee does not review any breeding records ... but there is a new MOS committee that might. I think it's called the Breeding Birds Committee ... or Breeding Records Committee. I believe it's tied to the Atlas. Perhaps MOS President, Karen Morley, or someone from the MOS Executive Committee could give us (on MD Osprey) a status update on this new committee. Phil At 02:34 PM 07/06/2001 -0400, Stan Arnold wrote: >Carol, > >The Yellow book shows no nesting dates for the Ruddy Duck, though it does >show a breeding record for Baltimore Co. This may be a Dorchester Co. >first. The Ruddy Ducks have summered at Hurlock for as long as I've been >going there (since summer 1999), but I've heard of no nesting attempts. I >imagine the MD/DC records committee may want some documentation on this. >Someone may want to estimate the age of the young to determine egg date and >hatch date. >======================================================================= =================================================== Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA 301-261-0184 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html =================================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================