Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:39:54 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: Glaucous Gull still at Hooper's I. 4/18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Birded a short while on the Eastern Shore Wednesday, 18 Apr, though the high wind made it not the most pleasant experience. Highlights were: * 2nd winter GLAUCOUS GULL still present at Hooper's Island, on same long dock described by Harry Armistead in his initial post about this bird. Thanks to Harry for spreading the word. * 1 STILT SANDPIPER (basic plumage), 1 Dunlin, 20 Greater and 5 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Blue-winged Teal, 4 Gadwall, 50 Forster's Tern, 3 SNowy and 25 Great Egrets, 1 Tricolored Heron at Deal Island WMA, Somerset County. No sign of the Ruff reported last Friday. * 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 35 Lesser and 20 Greater Yellowlegs, 25 Green-winged Teal, 55 Caspian Terns, 35 Forster's Terns, 10 Bonaparte's Gulls at Tanyard, Caroline County Best, Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com Annapolis, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================