Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:45:52 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: White Ibis, Black Hill Regional Park, 7/16/02 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Tyler and all, I had no business at all in Montgomery County on Monday but I went anyway. Saw the imm. White Ibis near the Wood Duck boxes -- very easy find. Took a few photos. Also had fun digiscoping an immature Green Heron with an Einstein hairdo and discovered that one could digiscope dragonflies too. Got some neat photos of a pair of mating Halloween Pennants and a Widow Skimmer. Weather was beautiful. No Wood Ducks seen. On my way back, I stopped at Copper's Lake and easily found two loons -- immature Common and Pacific. Neither was very close and the Pacific moved constantly either feeding or avoiding the paddleboat traffic. Photos taken but very distant and nothing like the gorgeous ones taken by Ray Wilson in the MOS Photo Gallery. Yesterday I got back to atlasing where I belong . Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers at Flag Ponds, three Brown Pelicans quite close in on the bay, 5 Great Egrets flew overhead, and eaglet is sitting on the side of the nest (!). Poked my head up the flue of the chimney at the Visitor's Center and was rewarded with the sight of three "swiftlets" clinging to the wall of the flue next to their nest. An adult flew in to much excitement and I watch as they were fed. The faceful of soot was a small price to pay for such a sight. Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD aripley@nestbox.com http://www.nestbox.com At 05:07 PM 7/16/02, Tyler Bell wrote: >Jane Kostenko and I needed to be in the Montgomery Village area this >morning so we popped in to see the immature White Ibis at Black Hill >Regional Park at about 7:30 a.m. It was preening on a log about 6 feet >from the nearer Wood Duck box on the north side of the stone dike >described in Paul O'Brien's excellent directions posted here earlier. >Then, the ibis began actively feeding along the water's edge. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================