Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 20:08:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: Re: Carroll Co. Birds 11/28/02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Baldpate? I havent heard that in a while. Speaking of old-time names for ducks, I was talking to someone about decoys and the guy kept refering to a "black head" duck. Does anyone know what he could have been refering too? He did not know any other name for it, nor could he produce a picture. he said it wasnt Scaup/Bluebill... -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ringler [mailto:ringler@QIS.NET] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:25 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Carroll Co. Birds 11/28/02 This morning with Bill Ellis I made a traditional Thanksgiving Day survey of the waterfowl at Piney Run Park. Here are the totals: Pied-billed Grebe 15 Double-crested Cormorant 1 immature (ties the latest date for the county set on Thanksgiving 1991) Great Blue Heron 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 immatures (first fall record for the county) Canada Goose 600 Tundra Swan 5 adults Gadwall 40 Baldpate 20 Black Duck 20 Mallard 80 Pintail 1 female Green-winged Teal 5 Canvasback 10 Ring-necked Duck 2,300 (tops the previous record high of 1,400 from Thanksgiving 2000) Lesser Scaup 1 immature male Bufflehead 40 Hooded Merganser 65 Ruddy Duck 425 Coot 200 Ring-billed Gull 14 Herring Gull 1 Among the landbirds were a Ruby-crowned Kinglet and at least 3 Hermit Thrushes. Later Bill added 1 or 2 Catbirds. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================