Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 06:20:33 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Scott Crabtree Subject: Re: Scoter in August, and Flycatching Gulls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Crabtree To: Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:11 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Scoter in August, and Flycatching Gulls > A couple of interesting observations from Queen Anne's county. > > On Friday, I observed a single White-winged Scoter from Horsehead Wetlands. This bird was in the Kent Narrows, and was a male. I presumed it was a bird who had not completed its spring migration, rather than an early arrival. Horsehead was otherwise pretty quiet. > > On Monday evening, after the sun came out, there was a large hatch of some insect, and they were out in great numbers over my residence on Kent Island. Laughing gulls were attempting to be Purple Martins, flying around flycatching. While their flight wasn't as agile as the martins, they still seemed very successful at snatching the insects out of the air. > > Scott Crabtree > Chester, MD > crabtree@myshorelink.com > > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================