[Fwd: Slaty-backed...YES!]

Tyler Bell (bell@say.acnatsci.org)
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:18:59 -0500


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Chatters and Ospreyers:

I just got this note from Greg Miller. Thought he wouldn't mind the
forward.

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:34:35 -0500
Subject: Slaty-backed...YES!
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I buzzed up to Conowingo, MD this morning.  I was there from 7:15-7:45am.
Lots of gulls.  Didn't have time to do the numbers justice.  The probable
Slaty-backed was standing on the first set of rocks just to the right of
the breakwall.  It was there the entire time I was at the dam.  Also had 2
adult Lesser Black-backeds, a single 1st winter Thayer's, and a 2nd winter
Iceland.

There were about 20 other birders there, some must have been the gulling
elite.  I only heard mere mumbles while looking at the Slaty-backed and
ho-hums when I called out Thayer's and Iceland.  I guess I'm still not too
jaded as I was pretty happy with the other birds, too.  Oh, well.  I'll
probably never grow up to be ho-hum *or* an expert. <grin>

>From my limited experience with Slaty-backed (2 birds last year--Attu and
Gambell--and a fair number in Japan in 1990), this appears to be a "good"
bird.  The tertial crescents are impressive on this individual and even at
that distance, the bird was easy enough to pick out with binoculars.

I presume others will post on the sighting this morning.  I do not have
access to MDOsprey or BirdChat from here.

-Greg



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