Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:00:36 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bob Mumford Subject: Re: Lake Needwood - American Avocet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to Tom Marko's prompt post, I was able to see the American Avocet at Lake Needwood. When I departed at 2:20, it was on actively feeding on a small mud bar about fifty yards out on the WEST side of Needwood Road (the lake side, not the mud flat side). I believe the bird to be a juvenile. Also present: two wood duck broods of four young each, one brood near full grown, three killdeer, two spotted sandpipers, two green herons, a kingfisher, an Eastern kingbird, and, of course, the ubiquitous mallards and Canada geese, now mostly flightless. Bob Mumford Darnestown ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================