Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:20:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Adam Smith Subject: Red-necked Grebe & Scoter(sp) at Jonas Green Park MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today at work, I saw a Red-necked Grebe and a Scoter at Jonas Green Park in Annapolis MD. The Red-necked Grebe was feeding alone at first just north of the channel. Then it swam in and fed around the abandoned restaurant pier and docks.btw these are condemned. It is also posted no trespassing, so do not enter this property. When I left it had joined a flock of Lesser Scaup. The scoter stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the flock of Lesser Scaup it was hanging out with. At first it was resting with head tucked across its back and under a wing. It stuck out because it was noticeably larger. It started diving shortly thereafter and I got a fairly good look at it, even though I did not have my scope with me and I had to use the substandard "work" binoculars I had with me in my vehicle. The scoter was most likely and I am 99% sure an 1st Winter Male or Female Surf Scoter but because of a lack of scope and the crummy work binoculars I had to use. There is a slim chance it was a White-winged Scoter, though I saw no evidence of white secondaries. I will take my scope with me tomorrow and post which one it was. Also at the park were: 1 Female Long-tailed Duck Several Bufflehead Several Ruddy Duck Lots of Lesser Scaup Several Mallard 1 American Coot Ring-billed Gull 1 Female Canvasback 0 Canada Geese (YEAH!) Adam Smith cyanbluecobalt@msn.com Arbutus MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================