Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:58:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Donald H. Broderick" Subject: Ocean City inlet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Heavy surf and rain this morning at O.C. inlet with strong E winds = becoming NE. Viewing fairly good from 9 A.M. until about 10:30 then = deteriorating to nearly impossible. More Boney's than we have seen this = year, 60 - 70. One first year Common Black-headed Gull with them. The on = again, mostly off again first year Glaucous was present for about 45 = minutes working the green buoy=20 The similarly unreliable first year Iceland was neither flying nor = roosting in his favorite spots - the South jetty and row G of the = parking lot (disdains Fritos). =20 Also, several Gannets in close, a dozen Red-throated Loons, a Great = Cormorant, a few Horned Grebes and 4 Forster's Terns.=20 Donald and Carol Broderick Salisbury, MD cdbird@ezy.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================