Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:09:30 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Harvey Mudd Subject: Re: Carroll Avocet Still There In-Reply-To: <8d.bfde878.28c56eab@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I also thank Bob. The avocet was still there at 4 pm on 9/3. It spent considerable time apparently actively feeding by submerging the head and seeming to scrape the bill at a shallow angle (probably along the bottom of the pond). So perhaps there is sufficient food to entice the bird to linger a while. Harvey Mudd At 07:39 PM 9/3/01 -0400, you wrote: >The American Avocet was still there as of 2 pm on 9/3. With 8 Least >Sandpipers. >Make sure you walk up on the berm and look down. > >Thanks to Bob!! > >Mark and Amy Hoffman >Sykesville, MD > >In a message dated 9/3/01 12:36:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ringler@QIS.NET >writes: > >> In Westminster, Carroll County, there was an Avocet in the sediment pond >> on Magna Way. The pond is about a tenth of a mile east of Route 97 near >the >> airport, north of town. This is not the pond behind the Dairy Queen but >the >> next pond. It is easily visible from the road. This is the second report >of >> Avocet for the county but the first confirmed. ____________________________________ S. Harvey Mudd NIMH/DIRP/LMB Building 36, Room 1B-08 36 CONVENT DR MSC 4034 BETHESDA MD 20892-4034 tel: 301-496-0681; fax 301-402-0245 email: shm@codon.nih.gov ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================