Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:50:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Doug and Lisa Lister Subject: Re: Five Little Gulls at back River today MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Could someone give me directions to Back River where the Little Gulls were seen. We would be coming up from St Mary's county so would probably come up Rte 4. It would be a lifer for me so I would love to go and try for them tomorrow. Thanks, Lisa Lister 45818 Delegates CT Great Mills,MD 20634 dandllister@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Mackiernan" To: Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Five Little Gulls at back River today > Hi all -- > > While I was at an MOS Records Committee meeting at the Smithsonian, my husband > Barry did a naughty thing and went up to Back River. There he saw FIVE Little > Gulls -- two in full summer plumage, two adults in winter plumage, and one > subadult in winter plumage. Two of the birds were above (upstream) of the > Eastern Ave. bridge and three below, seen from the parking lot of the > restaurant behind the Royal Farms gas station. The best vantage point for > above the bridge is parking in shopping mall lot and crossing road to edge of > river across a small open grassy area. Caution - it is wet and mucky underfoot. > > There were about 700 Bonaparte's Gulls in the sewage treatment plant and > about 2000 on the river. Of these, he couldn't adequately view about 800 > of them because of distance, so who knows what else is out there. > > Certainly Bonaparte Gull numbers are building in this area so it is a good time > to visit -- March and April have yielded, besides Little Gulls and the 1990 > Ross', Common Black-headed and Franklin's Gulls. > > Gail Mackiernan > Colesville, MD > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================