Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:56:24 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: rick Subject: Brown Pelicans in the Bay Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A small addition to Marshall's wonderful note about Brown Pelicans in the Bay: They are persistent post-breeding wanderers and the number of upper Bay records should increase substantially. With the expansion of the breeding range north along the Atlantic Coast has come a steady increase in records from August-November from New Jersey to Massachusetts. There is no reason not to think that the same thing will happen in the Bay and the Potomac River. Not on his list of Anne Arundel records (because I did not send it in) was a single bird I saw (and pointed out to my parents) flying off of Ft. Smallwood on September 25, 1990. Unfortunately it was going south and I did not see it enter Baltimore waters, particularly frustrating because I was living in California at the time of the Liberty Lake bird and missed it. It is the only time I have lived outside of the state of Maryland, a mistake I hope never to repeat. Rick Insect repellent is one of a number of joke items available in any chemist shop. - - Henry Beard Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086 Editor: BWD Skimmer (www.birdwatchersdigest.com) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================