Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 21:14:51 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt. R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Snow Goose, Prince George's County MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Actually, a Patuxent volunteer, Frank McGilvrey (sorry, don't know the exact spelling) noted a Snow Goose at the National Visitor Center during his daily (or is it weekly?) waterfowl surveys on 24 September. I apologize for failing to post it at the time. It looks like the bird is sticking around. Kurt Schwarz Howard County Patuxent Research Refuge Volunteer goawaybird@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Hilton" To: Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 3:39 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Snow Goose, Prince George's County > FWIW, this afternoon I saw an adult Snow Goose in the lake behind the > visitor center at the Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor > Center off Powder Mill Road. I saw the bird between about 1 and 1:30 pm but > not when we left at around 2:30. The bird was loosely associating with > Canada Geese. A staff person said that it had been around for a few days. > > Other birds visible were a Great Egret, Belted Kingfisher, and > Red-shouldered Hawk, plus a Ruby-crowned Kinglet near the visitor center > building. > > Rob Hilton > aimophila10@hotmail.com > Silver Spring > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================