Date:         Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:40:41 -0500
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From:         Edward Boyd <edboyd59@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Schoolhouse Pond, 1/30/04
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Warren,

You might REALLY want to reconsider the identification of the chickadee.  Ed Boyd Westminster, MD
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From: "Warren Strobel" <wstrobel@KRWASHINGTON.COM>
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Schoolhouse Pond, 1/30/04


>         A brief visit this snowy morning (8:30-9 a.m.) to Schoolhouse 
> Pond
in Upper
> Marlboro turned up the following:
>
>         - Northern Shoveler (1), dabbling in the small area of open water.
>         - American Coot (1), nearby
>         (Both of the above are year-birds for me, for a very modest 
> 2004
total of
> 33)
>
>         - Mallard, approx. 20, resting on the ice
>         - Ring-billed gull, approx. 100 as well as 200-300 other 
> gulls,
sp.
>         - Canada Gesse, approx. 10, in open water and flying overhead
>         - Domesticated geese, 10 (are these known as Graylag?)
>         - Tufted Titmouse, 2
>         - Mockingbird, 1
>         - Cardinal, 1
>         - Starling, 8-10, overhead
>         - Black-Capped Chickadee, 1
>
>
>         In Cape St. Claire, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Downy
Woodpecker have
> been visting our suet feeder. 4-5 Canvasback and a female Bufflehead 
> were spotted on 1/28/2004 in a small patch of open water at the Marina 
> on the Magothy River, the first time I have seen Canvasback there in 
> two years of living here.
>
>         Warren P. Strobel
>         Cape St. Claire, MD
>         wstrobel@krwashington.com
>
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