Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:40:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Hans Holbrook Subject: western shore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I took a trip down through Upper Marlboro and Saint Mary's County with a = non birding friend. He expressed some interest in going, and I figured I= could use the company. Near Upper Marlboro a GREAT HORNED OWL was sittin= g on a small tree. Around 9am we dropped in on Schoolhouse Pond, a 1st ye= ar and an adultish LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were present. Then we made = are way on down to the Seabreeze, result was great up close views of the = KELP GULL. Highlights at Point Look Out included 12 GANNET, 1 fly-bly BL= ACK SCOTER, RED-BREASTED MERGS, OLDSQUAW, GOLDENEYE, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFL= EHEAD (the ducks were pretty numerous compaired to some other places on t= he bay lately), 6 HORNED GREBE, 4 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and 2 BALD EAGLES co= urting over head, very nice show for the "non-birder", as well as 1 MARSH= WREN. On the way home we dropped by Jug Bay, a lot of gulls but I didn'= t spend much time, there was a fly-by 1st year LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL a= nd 12 COMMOM MERGS, on the way out my friend managed to show me a flock o= f 20 TURKEY feeding in a field. Stopped back by Schoolhouse Pond, the gu= lls were gone, but there was 2 GADWALL hanging out. All in all not a bad= day and my friend found it interesting enough he wants to go out again s= ometime. So the trip was successful in more than one way. Hans Holbrook hansholbrook@msn.com Columbia, MD =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================