Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:54:34 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kerry Stone Subject: Re: Greater WF Goose/Greylag at Lake Artemesia 3-10-02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just got back from Lake Artemesia. After looking through many of my field guides, my Stokes guide said that immature Greaters, "lack the white on the face - immature plumage kept through the following spring." I'm leaning toward Greater. The high winds kept the geese close to shore.... Also close view of two common snipe. Kerry Stone Takoma Park, MD Montgomery County kerryzelda@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================