Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:41:33 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: Breeding Status of Hooded Merg in Momt Co MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul, When we did the Yellow Book we were using data through 1995 and did not have your breeding record from Montgomery County. My only experience with breeding Hooded Mergansers was sighting a female with small downy young in Anne Arundel County on 4/30/89. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Woodward To: Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:46 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Breeding Status of Hooded Merg in Momt Co > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================