[birdky] FW: gyrfalcon spotting north of baltimore md ?
- From: "Ritchison, Gary" <Gary.Ritchison@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:58:07 -0500
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From: Richard [mailto:Richard07@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: gyrfalcon spotting north of baltimore md ?
> > I think I saw a Gyrfalcon in Towson.
> > It looked like this ...
<http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/enlarged.asp?imageID=17707>
> > Richard
Dear Audubon Folks,
If this is important information, please
pass it along and let me know what I should
do about it. I am a sub-amateur birder in
Baltimore. On Monday before noon, I saw
calmly perched on a lamppost above a busy
intersection in Towson -- a densely populated
northern suburb -- a very large whitish bird,
with gray speckeled wings, looked like an
owl, but its head was round like a bullet
and smaller (narrower) than its shoulders.
Looked male to me, but that's only a guess.
Very magestic, and didn't seem to mind the
moderate traffic twenty feet below.
On the internet (enature.com) it looked to
me to be a Gyrfalcon. My friend Steve Estes
fwd'd me the following, and we're wondering
if a rare Gyrfalcon may have escaped from
KY to MD. I have not phoned the numbers ...
Richard Tryzno Ellsberry
Baltimore Maryland
Towson University
(410) 377-4972
Richard07@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sighting either a gyrfalcon in white phase or a snowy owl would
> be
> extremely rare ,at this latitude and at this time of year. I'm
not
> saying its impossible but .... a white gyrfalcon would normaly
be
> in Iceland
> or Greenland however it might just be this one
<http://www.surfbirds.com/phorum/read.php?f=102&i=4740&t=4740>
> Author: Kathy Caminiti
> Date: 10-27-06 12:01
>
> Hello All !
>
> Please keep a lookout for a Gyrfalcon that was lost yesterday by a
> falconer
> in Verona, Ky. (Boone County).
>
> The batteries went dead in the transmitters. And the Gyrfalcon does
have
> jesses on.
>
> Any sightings, please call the falconer Paul Bronc at 859-240-2418
right
> away.
>
> Good Birding,
> Kathy Caminiti
> 859-689-4166
>
>
>
> you should report what you saw to the local audubon society as
> well_http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/md/welcome.htm_
> (http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/md/welcome.htm)
>
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