Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:54:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: immature Bald Eagle with radio backpack transmitter at Patuxent MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Mark The Maryland DNR might be able to help. They are tracking several Bald Eagles. The information might be available on the DNR website. Gwen Brewer works for Glenn Therres at DNR, and I know they keep track of the Bald Eagles in Maryland. Some have radio tracking devices attached, and I think they are connected (unwired) to satellite tracking systems. I will ask Gwen when she gets off the phone. You may have seen one of the birds they are keeping track of. Regards George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Miller" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] immature Bald Eagle with radio backpack transmitter at Patuxent > Just returned from an evening bird walk at Patuxent. > > The most interesting thing I saw was an immature Bald > Eagle with a radio harness backpack. > > I got several decent views of the bird and the > harness, so I'm positive of what I saw. I know radios > are used commonly to study Bald Eagles, so this > observation is not extraordinary. But it was the > first time I've ever seen a free-ranging wild raptor > with a radio attached. > > I started wondering if it was a satellite transmitter. > If so, perhaps somebody knows exactly which bird this > was? > > Also saw an osprey, a brown thrasher, and quite a few > eastern phoebes. > > Heard lots of toads calling, as well as pickerel > frogs. The last notable observation: I thought I > heard at least two gray tree frogs call several times. > Sometimes I get a little confused between gray tree > frogs and red-bellied woodpeckers, but these made none > of the misc. calls that the woodpeckers insert between > their rolling "churrrrrr"s. Plus the sun had already > set (but it was still light). I only mention this > because I thought, for some reason, that it was too > early for tree frogs. > > > Mark W. Miller > > Laurel, Maryland > > P.S. > > description of the eagle: > > huge bird > large beak > prominent neck when perched > extremely piebald and "ruffled" looking > soared with flat wings > huge primary slots visible during flapping flight > > antennae jutted up and back at a 40 degree angle and > was maybe 6-8" long? Base of pack was large and > obvious. > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================