Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:50:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Breeding Status of Hooded Merg in Momt Co In-Reply-To: <000901c2f39e$424cb1a0$596e5c0c@oemcomputer> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi -- We also had a Hooded Merg with ducklings at Lilypons about 5-6 years ago, and this was reported to American Birds and appeared in the seasonal summary. Could look up the date exactly if needed. Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Colesville, MD on 03/26/2003 8:46 AM, Paul Woodward at grackling@WORLDNET.ATT.NET wrote: > Recently I downloaded the Checklist of Montgomery County Birds from > the chapter's website www.mdkinc.com/mccbird , which I have found very > useful for my work and noticed it listed the Hooded Merganser as having no > breeding records since 1977. I know of at least 2 recent records- Dick > Holman reported a brood at Hughes Hollow in 2001 on MDOSPREY and I found a > brood there in the mid 1990's (don't have time now to look up the exact > date).. My experience tells me that this species probably nests every year > in the Seneca-Hughes Hollow area, but much of the potential nesting habitat > is not easily accessible. > > Paul Woodward > Fairfax City, VA 22032 > grackling@att.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================