I wonder if this is the same white pelican that has been seen in Accotink Bay, Virginia recently?  I stopped by there this morning in hopes of seeing it, but it was not there.  Maybe it decided to visit Maryland for a while?
   
  Craig Tumer
  College Park, MD.

danny bystrak <> wrote:
  This morning (Jan. 7, 2007) at 7:48, while sitting on my inverted
5-gallon bucket overlooking the South end of Jug Bay, a White Pelican
sailed into view, presumably the same one Jeff saw yesterday. It
eventually got up on the P.G. Co. shore and preened for a great long
while (when I left at 8:49, it was still there, but not at 1 pm).

Yesterday, I heard a Wood Duck, so walked down to the beaver pond in our
creek, where I flushed 9 of them. In a warm February, I normally expect
to start hearing migrants (in my experience the wintering individuals
don't call much) in the first week. As warm as it has been, and with
yesterday's absurd temps, I suspect these may actually have been early
migrants returning. The same location has had no sign of Wood Ducks
since late November.

My "bucket list" is off to a good start this year; I am at 57 species,
tied with this date in '05 and 8 ahead of last year. My yearly total
for '06 was 173, down from my '05 total of 183. My first year of this
insanity ('04) I only recorded 161. Is there a known record for "most
species recorded from one spot"? My total for all years (first started
my vigil in 1997 I think, but didn't get crazed (=annual list) about it
until '04) is around 227, give or take a few hypotheticals.

danny bystrak
Bristol, aa co. md


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