MD Osprey:

If anyone looks for and finds the Calvert County Aechmophorus (i.e, 
Western/Clark's) grebe on Sunday, please pass the word, ASAP.

The attached links provides maps to Governors Run Road, which is east 
of Port Republic, on the bay  ... (you can zoom these maps) ...

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=3010%20Governor%20Run%20Rd&city=Port%20Republic&state=MD&zipcode=20676%2d2361&country=US&geodiff=1

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=governors+run,+calvert+county,+md&ie=UTF8&ll=38.507072,-76.549988&spn=0.094569,0.160675&z=13&om=0

Thanks!

Phil
cell: 240-460-5159


At 19:00 02/09/2008, Kurt Gaskill wrote:
>MDOspreyers,
>
>At about 315pm today (2/9/08) Sherman Suter and I spotted an Aechmophorus
>Grebe about 600m (+/-) off the end of Governors Run in Calvert Co.   The
>bird was within a few hundred meters of the green buoy and was alone.  The
>waves were much smaller this afternoon at this location permitting
>reasonable viewing into the Bay; also sunny and pleasant with just a slight
>breeze.  In brief, large grebe, long neck, white foreneck, gray-black
>hindneck, gray-black back, large light-colored bill, black on top of head,
>white in the lower portion of the face.  Larger than nearby Long-tailed
>Ducks.  Unable to discern extent of black on top of head in to face, nor
>discern yellow in bill color, nor if color of flanks near waterline
>lightened to whitish-gray.  (Phil, Sherman will submit full details to which
>we both agreed to at the time of sighting).  Viewing through the usual
>scopes we carry.

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