Date:         Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:07:49 -0500
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From:         "Marko, Thomas L. GS BUMED" <TLMarko@US.MED.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Red-necked Grebe - Can you top this?
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I observed a Red-necked Grebe swimming nonchalantly well within a flooded
wooded area on Roosevelt Island (Wash, DC) last week.  Guess it's time for a
Sibley revision?

Tom Marko
Olney, MD
MOS-MCC
Email: tlmarko@us.med.navy.mil

-----Original Message-----
I realize that Red-Necked Grebe sightings have become fairly commonplace
this winter, but...

This morning Nancy called me to look out our back window at two birds on
Swantown Creek - yup, a pair of red-necked grebes.

Swantown Creek is a 250 foot wide, tidal, fresh-water tributary of the
Sassafras River. Didn't these birds read Sibley - "Winters mostly on deep,
open water"?

Anyway, they are our best backyard birds yet!

Peter Mann,
Galena, MD

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