Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:56:42 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Halloran Subject: Re: Gannets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We were on the bay-bridge tunnel pier on Saturday - in the rain - and had gannets flying by close to the end of the pier - I've only seen them from shore before - I watched a dozen or so fly by one by one. Also saw from the Assateague camp ground hundreds and hundreds of snow geese flying down to the Refuge - high up sparkling in the sun on Monday morning - four flights over the course of the morning. Joe Halloran jhalloran@flashcom.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "sue hamilton" To: Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 8:11 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Gannets > Reading about Marshall's Sunday birding reminded me that: > > On Saturday, Nov. 18, at Scientists' Cliffs, south beach, I met Sherman > Suter and Mary Ashby looking through a scope at large numbers of Northern > Gannets -- Sherm estimated 65 -- some came close in to the Calvert County > shoreline, but most remained more toward the middle of the Bay. > I've seen large numbers in the Spring before, but never such a large number > in the Fall. > > Didn't report because I expected Sherman to do so.... > > sue hamilton > Scientists' Cliffs, Port Republic, Calvert County > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================