Re: tides for Colonial Beach, VA
PObrien776 (PObrien776@aol.com)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:31:12 EST
MDOspreys,
Interesting! Thanks for the research on the tides. One could make the case
that at the high tide (null), very little in the way of Loon-chow is being
swept out of the creek. Note that the sightings are all just inside the
narrow inlet between the creek and the bay. It could be that the Loon feeds
out in the bay or down stream when the tide is moving out. Yesterday I
scanned the bay and found only one Loon sleeping. It was a Common. At
Oswego, NY the juvenile Yellow-billed Loon spent a lot of time feeding outside
the breakwater separating the river mouth from Lake Ontario. It would
occasionally come into the river and make a tour around the harbor then go
back out into the lake. I don't know what that means other than that it may
have preferred the deeper water of the lake but found something to its liking
in the river from time to time. Perhaps the deeper water of the bay is this
bird's preferred habitat. I wish I knew something about the habits of Yellow-
billed Loons. Anybody have any ideas?
Paul O'Brien
Rockville, MD
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