Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:54:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Little Gull, Calvert Cliffs Nuke Plant, 2/28/2000 Comments: To: jane_kostenko@co.saint-marys.md.us, MillerGB@navair.navy.mil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jane and I got up at the crack of dawn and headed to the nuke plant to = look AGAIN for the Little Gull that Danny Bystrak found on Friday and = Harvey and Marion Mudd, Greg Miller and George Jett had yesterday. We = arrived at about 6:30 a.m. and almost immediately found it feeding in the = turbulence of the cooling outflow with about 50 Bonaparte's Gulls. We = watched it for about 45 minutes before heading off to work. If you plan on trying for this bird, make sure that you don't go to the = overlook. You can't see the outflow from that vantage point, only the = inflow. Take the nature trail off to the left of the overlook and go to = the sign saying something like Do Not Go Beyond This Point. That area = looks directly out onto the riffles of the outflow. We found that the = early morning light was excellent. Although it was coming from our right, = we could use one of the large trees to the right as a screen. Thanks to everyone for keeping us updated. Another nemesis bird bites the = dust! Good Birding! Tyler Bell mailto:bell@acnatsci.org California, MD http://www.audubon.org/listserv/md-smas-general.html http://www.audubon.org/listserv/nd-birds.html ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================