Ed - Those birds do build up rapidly after they get started.  In October
2006 I visited my farm home in Nebraska and found over 50 Eurasian Collared
Doves in the quite old mulberry trees of the farmstead.  I have visited the
farmstead at least a couple of times each year for the past decade and had
never found them there before this year.  In 2005 I had seen one in a
village some 15 miles from the farmstead.
Frode - Congratulations on a great find!  We're still watching for the first
one to show up in Talbot County.

Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601


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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Blackwater NWR Nov19: Golden Eagle & Eurasian
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That's the first pair that I've heard of. I know of only individual
sightings to this point over the last 3 years. I still stand by my
prediction made earlier this spring that in 5 years there will be scattered
pairs/colonies over most of the state, in almost every county, but mostly
east of Allegheny County.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD


---- Bill Hubick <> wrote: 
> Frode,

Excellent finds!  I believe your doves will be the first Dorchester Co.
record, as well as the first report of more than one EUCD at a location in
Maryland. 

Can someone confirm that? 

Cheers,

Bill

Bill Hubick
Elkridge, MD
bill_hubick AT yahoo.com
http://www.billhubick.com


----- Original Message ----
From: Frode Jacobsen <>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:01:40 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Blackwater NWR Nov19: Golden Eagle & Eurasian Collared
Dove


...However, on my way back north, I suddenly noticed a suspiciously large
dove on a telephone wire. It turned out to be a Eurasian Collared Dove. As I
pulled off the road and got out of the car, I heard the familiar song of the
Collared Dove, but the song came from a different angle than the one I
initially spotted. I turned my head and indeed a second bird was perched on
the wire right behind me! The first bird responded to the male song and flew
over and landed next to him. I managed to shoot some photos of them before
they flew across the road and landed in a tree in someone’s front yard
(house # 2363). A photo of the male bird has been posted at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37699157@N00/

Frode Jacobsen
Baltimore, MD

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