Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:38:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: Red-necked Grebe - Can you top this? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter, The Red-necked Grebes you are seeing are not wintering but migrating. In migration they can show up most anywhere. As far as we know they do spend the winter on deep water. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Mann To: Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Red-necked Grebe - Can you top this? > 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 > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================