Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:52:28 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Re: Bridled Tern? pix, 9/19/03, STMA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dave: Attached are the pix. Let me know what you think! Tyler >>> mozurk@BELLATLANTIC.NET 09/22/03 03:50PM >>> Tyler, Your Bridled Terns are probably the best birds displaced into Maryland by the storm. I'd love to see your photographs. Although I'm no expert, I have seen a few Bridled Terns over the years. 12 must surely be a high count for Maryland. Dave David Mozurkewich Seabrook, PG MD USA mozurk @ bellAtlantic.net On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Tyler Bell wrote: > > Then, a dark winged tern came by. We looked at the underwing pattern > and noticed that the trailing edge of the primaries and secondaries > was dark but the primaries did not have an extensive amount of dark on > them. It was pretty much restricted to the outer tips. The tail was > deeply forked though the inner rectrices seemed to be fairly dark. At > first, we thought it was a Sooty Tern due to the darkness of the tail > but the underwing pattern indicated Bridled. Over the course of our > stay until about 12:30 p.m. there were about 12 terns matching the > above description. There were 2 birds that had a more extensive amount > of dark on the underwing primaries, almost forming a triangle, > indicating Sooty Tern. We were able to capture some footage of one of > the terns which ventured slightly closer to shore than most. I grabbed > some stills from the video and have posted them on the web site below. > Go to Photos then Bridled Tern. > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com=20 with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================