Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:39:15 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Harford/Cecil birds 1/21/04 (small goose) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Gail and Barry: I think you meant to say that Jonathan submitted it to the Virginia Records Committee (VARCOM), not the MD/DC Records Committee. The mouth of Hunting Creek must have put it in VA. Phil At 09:58 01/23/2004 -0500, Gail Mackiernan wrote: >We found a Cackling Canada Goose at the mouth of Hunting Creek two >winters ago (with other Canadas) -- it was well-photographed by >Jonathan Alderfer and submitted to the MD/DC Records Committee. It was >accepted as "correct identification" but not accepted on basis of >origin because investigations indicated that this is a fairly common >bird in wildfowl collections. > >One obvious characteristic of this bird, other than tiny size, was its >very deep purplish breast color which showed very little contrast with >the black neck. > >Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper >Silver Spring, MD =================================================== Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA 301-261-0184 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html =================================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================