Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:00:15 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Black Scoters in DC Comments: cc: voice@capaccess.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Between about 10:15 and 10:30 or so this morning, Dec. 2, Lisa Shannon and I saw two female-plumaged Black Scoters in the middle of the Potomac drifting ever so slowly downriver, off of Hains Point/East Potomac Park. They were dozing, sometimes stretching and flapping. In the park itself near the Awakening statue we saw an adult Bald Eagle perched a couple of hundred feet from us, in a tree, unconcernedly eating something before scraping its bill. After we looked at the river and came back to our cars, it was still in the tree. An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was the only other noteworthy bird. Paul Pisano told me that at Kenilworth Park this morning he and Craig Tumer found a Horned Lark on the ground and saw/heard several American Pipits flyover (I think the pipits were at K. P.). On the run, Rob Hilton robert@csa.com Bethesda, Md. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================