Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:18:10 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: Mississippi Kite - Jug Bay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yesterday, May 19, 2000 from 9:44 to 9:50 a.m., i watched a MIKI soaring and gliding his way across the south end of Jug Bay. He started out over PG Co. and ended up over AA Co. It was an immature. How often does one who has been doing this stuff for 38 years see a life bird without leaving home? Now last year about this time i heard a Sandhill Crane and Sue saw one at Ft Smallwood the next day. This year, she sees a MIKI at smallwood and then i see one the next day. Pretty weird. Went to North & Chesapeake Beaches later and saw my latest Glossy Ibis ever at N. Beach and my latest Cliff Swallow ever at Ch. Beach. There were also a Black Scoter at N. Beach and a Surf Scoter at Ch. Beach. Finished up the day conversing with my Black Rail behind the house. Hey this birding thing is pretty cool. danny bystrak bristol, AA Co. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================