Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:43:49 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sally Wechsler Subject: Re: unidentified white bird at Hughes Hollow In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii There's been a caspian tern hanging around that area. Did the bird you saw look anything like that - it's a white bird with some small black areas. Sally --- "Boughton, James M." wrote: > Sunday evening at Hughes Hollow, around 7 p.m., > a medium-sized white > bird--definitely not a wader--flew low over the > first impoundment on the > right of the main path, then circled around and > disappeared from our > view as it headed over to the large impoundment > on the left. It appeared > to be a bit larger than a crow, with the > general appearance of a raptor > except for being almost entirely white. It may > have had a little black > toward the tip of its tail, and it had a little > marking around the eye, > but that was it. My wife and I were the only > birders in the area at the > time, and we're not experts. Pictures in the NG > and Sibley guides > suggest something like a gyrfalcon (except for > being far out of range), > but with a warning to watch for albino > red-tails. > > Any ideas? An escapee, or a weird dream? > Whatever it was, it was quite > a sight! > > Jim Boughton > Chevy Chase > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff > mdosprey > ======================================================================= __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================