Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:07:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: June Tveekrem Subject: Re: Pintail and Goldeneye in HowCo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was at Centennial on Tuesday (freezing my fingers and toes in the cold wind). The west end was frozen, and all the ducks and geese were in a couple patches of open water near the stand and closer to the dam. I saw neither the Pintail nor the Goldeneye, much to my regret. ----------------------------------- June Tveekrem Columbia, Howard County, MD tweekiebird@toadmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt. R. Schwarz" To: Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Pintail and Goldeneye in HowCo > Lisa, > > I have no idea. I haven't been to Centennial since I spotted the > ducks on Sunday. I have seen no further reports. I expect that > with the real cold weather, the western end of the lake is > frozen by now. But they could have moved to open water. > The 4 Canvasbacks that typically hang out at Wilder were on > Centennial Sunday morning, which tells me Wilde was frozen > over then, though I do not know for sure. From past Centennial > experience, I don't expect the Pintail to have lingered, but the Goldeneye > may very well have. We did see one on 1 January, this COULD be > the same bird, in which case, your chances are good. > > Kurt Schwarz > Howard > goawaybird@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================