Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:14:50 -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" thanks, that was my assumption, but i wanted to know more....thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: George M. Jett [mailto:gmjett@COMCAST.NET] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 8:30 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Carroll Co. Birds 11/28/02 Chris Bent Life Histories of North American Wildfowl, , 1923, page 207 states, "know to gunners as the "big bluebill,", "big blackhead". I surmise from this that Greater Scaup is the species referred to. Some folks may know what they are shooting at but are unwilling to admit they don't what it is called. I hope this helps. Happy Thanksgiving to all. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Starling" To: Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Carroll Co. Birds 11/28/02 > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================