Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Pacific Loon - retraction MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After discussing the lighting conditions with Jim Stasz, who looked for the loon most of yesterday, I feel it best to leave it as a *possible* Pacific Loon. Jim said that twice he thought that he had a Pacific Loon in the area that I reported. Though, upon enlarging the image through digiscoping, it was clearly not a Pacific. The lighting can apparently be very deceiving. Though it should be noted that Jim had a different collection of birds from the same area. I still encourage people to have a look, I'll surely be back as soon as I can. Matt Hafner College Park, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================