Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:25:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mark Hoffman Subject: 2/29, Worcester Highlights MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Still exhausted from the pelagic, but nonetheless (2/29) . Ocean City/Inlet (the place was "overrun" with birders!!) Razorbill: I saw 4, Matt Hafner said at least 8. Common Eider: 25 (exact count) King Eider: 4 Eagles' Nest Road Pond Eurasian Wigeon 3 (2 m., 1 f.) (MLH, Stasz, Hafner, Holbrook). First female EUWI I have seen in MD. Head a rich cinnamon color, with no contrast between head and body. Face quite "plain". Smaller than AMWI. No black mark at gape. Did not see underwings. Assateague Boat Ramp (on west side of Sin. Bay) Red-necked Grebe: 1 (Jim predicted it .) (photos) George Island Landing Common Merganser: 1 (f., still there, good county year bird, MLH only) (photos) Mark Hoffman Sykesville, MD wcbirding@adelphia.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================