[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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Good Birding! The probability of a given
Tyler Bell event occurring is inversely
mailto:bell@say.acnatsci.org proportional to its desirability.
California, MD
http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/smas/
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From: Gregory.B.Miller.AT.~MKT2PO1%BGECCMAIL@bge.com
To: bell@say.acnatsci.org,
clralph@gateway.net,
jlstasz@aol.com,
miliff@aol.com
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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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