Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:56:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt. R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: ducks, etc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The public access areas of Triadelphia Reservoir are closed from 15 December to March, excepting from the dam. They apparently weren't scrupulous about closing gates on the MontCo side for the past few years. They've been more efficient about it on the HowCo side. Kurt Schwarz HowCo goawaybird@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toni & Bob Hartman" To: Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 8:29 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] ducks, etc. > Hi - Toni and I went duck hunting today (with scope and binocs). > However, the first "duck" we saw was a Bald Eagle on the ice at > Tridelphia, seen from Brighton Dam. According to Sibley, this was a > third year bird, with a fair amount of white on the head. We had > never seen that plumage before. Also from the dam we saw about a > dozen Buffleheads, and roughly 100 Common Mergansers, by far the biggest flock > we have ever seen. > > Brighton Dam was the only place we could get to Tridelphia from the > Montgomery side - the other access roads were closed. We have gotten > in there during previous winters - what's going on? > > At Black Hill, in addition to a lot of geese and Ruddy Ducks, we saw > about a dozen Ring-necks, roughly 2 dozen Canvasbacks (almost all > drakes), about 6 Hooded Mergansers, a single pair of pintails, a > single male C. Goldeneye, 2 or 3 P-b Grebes, 2 Common Loons, and only > about a dozen coots. That's the smallest number of coots we have ever > seen there in winter; in recent years, the numbers have been in the > hundreds. Did we just miss them? > > Bob Hartman > Colesville, MD > > ====================================================================== > = > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================