Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:53:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Town Creek pier, St. Mary's Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Yesterday afternoon as I was driving across the Solomons bridge into St. = Mary's county, I could see a number of ducks swimming around the Town = Creek pier. Since this is easily scoped from the warmth of the car, I = swung by there to see what the ice had forced down river. From the top of = the bridge, you can see well to the north and it appears that most of the = river has frozen over in the last week or so with temps barely crawling = above freezing. Anyway, there were the usual Common Goldeneyes and = Buffleheads and a few Long-tailed Ducks. However, right around the pier = area were a small number of Redheads (perhaps 4 or 5, it was hard to tell = with them diving and meandering around the pilings) and about 10 Canvasback= s. Redhead always seem to be a difficult duck to find in S. MD so this was = a nice sight. The Patuxent River Waterfowl Survey, sponsored by the Jug Bay Wetland = Sanctuary, is this next Saturday. If the ice doesn't break up significantly= in the next few days, the survey will be pretty slim pickin's :( Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, Maryland Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues =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 =========================================================================