Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:43:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Old Duck Names MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Folks If anyone is wondering what a Baldpate is, it is a Wigeon. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Dolesh" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Carroll Co. Birds 11/28/02 > 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" > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================