Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:38:51 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Shaffer Subject: Schoolhouse Pond gulls (Feb. 7) Sorry for the late post, but its been a pretty hectic week. There was a juvenile Thayer's Gull at Schoolhouse Pond at lunch yesterday. I had close looks at it, both at rest and at flight and noted the small, all black bill, the light back marked with white spotting, brown primaries, and brightish pink legs. Other gulls present were: 3 Greater Black Backed Gulls (an interesting combination of 1 2nd winter bird, 1 3rd winter bird, & 1 adult); 16 Herring Gulls; 174 Ring Billed Gulls I still haven't tracked down a Glaucous Gull.... Today could have good numbers of gulls at the pond as it was partially frozen over last night and gull numbers seemed to be building earlier this AM. Fred Shaffer Crofton, Anne Arundel fshaffer3@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================