Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:47:48 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Warren Strobel Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Pond, 1/30/04 In-Reply-To: <002201c3e779$b62d7f80$0200a8c0@azbirdman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Indeed. Apologies to all for a premature, and probably wrong, ID. Should have checked my Sibley's more closely. Thanks for the lesson! Warren -----Original Message----- From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On Behalf Of Edward Boyd Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:41 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Schoolhouse Pond, 1/30/04 Warren, You might REALLY want to reconsider the identification of the chickadee. Ed Boyd Westminster, MD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Strobel" To: 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 > > ====================================================================== > = > 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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================