Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:04:59 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kyle Rambo Subject: Re: On the breeding status of Ruddy Duck in MD In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If Marshall or anyone else is interested in tallying summer Ruddy ducks in other counties, there are currently 5 Charles County ruddies on the Patuxent River next to Tony's restaurant in Benedict. Kyle Rambo Hollywood, MD --- Marshall Iliff wrote: > > Ruddy Duck is the most regular summering > non-breeding species of waterfowl in > Maryland, is annual all summer at Hurlock, and > invariably can be found at a > number of other small ponds, or sewage ponds (e.g. > Easton, Pocomoke, Berlin), > across the state. Last year I kept track and had > Ruddies in June or July in > Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent, > Worcester, and Baltimore > Counties. The Yellow Book has their status > drastically underestimated for > summer. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================