Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:04:35 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Felley Subject: Doldrums? - NOT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How can there be doldrums when the migrants are flocking onto the Mall? Of course I'm referring to the Ring-billed Gulls, now showing up in their dapper breeding plumage. The dreary, drab juveniles will follow shortly. Above my house on Sunday (I live in Gaithersburg near the Airpark), two crows were hassling an adult Bald Eagle. My wife looked at the high-flying trio and said that the big one 'might be' a Bald Eagle (she thinks a lot of birds I see are eyeball floaters). My daughter Madeleine, a much more devoted birder, took the binocs and stated 'That is so totally a Bald Eagle!', so I consider my ID confirmed. Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution irmss668@sivm.si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================