Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:02:34 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Daniel Edelstein Subject: Loons at Black Hill Lake Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Ten Common Loons, eight of which were in full, male breeding plumage, are on Black Hill Lake today at Black Hill Regional Park in western Montgomery Co. April is an excellent month to see these transients on this lake as they go north, but I've also seen them here in May and as late as around June 15th. Enjoy, Daniel Daniel Edelstein - Designing and writing nature and science media since 1980 - Specializing in writing informative, engaging articles that empower readers to understand and to take action - Consulting with publishers, museums, parks, design firms and public agencies 14400 Long Channel Circle Germantown, MD 20874-5412 USA (40 miles west of Washington, D.C.) 301.916.1850 (Voice) 301.916.1197 (FAX) http://home.earthlink.net/~edelstein *Do you want to know the date of the next full moon and read about other sky and land seasonal nature "phenology" events? If so, feel free to check out my "spinning" Earth Web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~edelstein ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================