Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:50:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: Miserable day ou there... The weather is totally miserable today! I was NOT out birding, but rather just doing my job at the Perry Point VA Complex in Cecil County. I Counted 326 Common Mergansers along the rocky shoreline of the mouth of the Susquehanna River. With the mergs. were 2 Black Ducks, 6 Mallards, 14 Great- black-backed Gulls, 6 Herring Gulls, 22 Ring-billed Gulls, and at least 1 Lesser-blacked Backed Gull, and 4 Great Blue Heron. There may have been another lesser but I only saw him for a second and I wasn't driving so I could not stop and study it closer. The first was defiantly a lesser. Could be a good day for gulls today, maybe I'll get back out there later if the rain slacks off. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================