Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:25:52 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Susan Heath Subject: Re: Harford/Cecil birds 1/21/04 (small goose) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040123133659.0204a2a0@popd.ix.netcom.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Phil, The Virginia Records Committee has not reviewed any records of Cackling Goose at Hunting Creek or elsewhere. Not sure where this bird was reviewed! Sue Phil Davis wrote: > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================