Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:31:38 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: Pacific Loon end date? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MDOsprey, The last date reported for the Pacific Loon at Ocean City Inlet was the sighting of 23 May 2001 by Ringler, Andrew Gilbert, and others. Andrew and I actually returned the next day (24 May 2001) and were able to closely approach the loon and photograph it well inside the inlet as it fed just off the north end of Assateague Island. Unfortunately we saw Linda and Dottie scoping from the inlet but they were gone by the time we got back to shore and headeed out to the inlet area. I am sorry to hear that they missed the loon that day, which was extremely foggy in the morning (up to about 11:30 a.m.). I have not heard of any later dates and would be very interested to hear any reports, positive or negative, from other observers. Did anyone see the loon, or look for the look, after 24 MAY 2001? Best, Marshall Iliff *********************** 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================