Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:37:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: Mall birds, 3/24 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline A stroll around the Tidal Basin and upper Hains point provided these looks: Maine Ave. area, north Hains Point 6-7 Red-necked Grebes, some beginning to develop red necks! Double-crested Cormorants Ring-billed, Herring and Greater Black-backed gulls Potomac River More gulls of the above 3 species, (1) Osprey on the train bridge nest Tidal Basin (2) Red-necked grebes Double-crested Cormorants in flocks the same three gull species 10-12 Red-breasted Mergansers DC Veteran's Monument Song sparrows in large flocks American Robins in large flocks My first Brown Thrasher of the year. Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felley@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================