Date:         Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:22:10 -0500
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From:         Rich Dolesh <dolesh@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Carroll Co. Birds  11/28/02
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I love the old names for our ducks.  I used to hear them frequently from duck hunters, but these names are quickly passing as the old timers fade away.

Do you know, for example, what a Steelhead is?  A Helldiver?  A Squab Canvasback?  A Fisher?

A "blackhead" (or bluebill) is most definitely a scaup, although I could never figure out if the old guys were referring to lesser or greater, or both.

Oh... steelhead=hooded merganser; helldiver=ruddy duck; squab canvasback=ruddy, again; fisher=common merganser.

Rich Dolesh
Aquasco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Starling" <Christopher.Starling@MED.VA.GOV>
To: <MDOSPREY@home.ease.lsoft.com>
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
>
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