Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 07:38:09 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: Common Terns+ in DC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/10/2003 5:27:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, cheep@EROLS.COM writes: > Later in the day I went to Hains Point were I saw 4 COMMON TERNS flying > south from the mouth of the Washington Channel. A few minutes later I > watched a loose flock of 17 COMMON TERNS flying north up the river. I > hung out a few minutes longer to see if anything else of interest would > fly by, but the best I could do was 1 CASPIAN TERN. The RED-NECKED > GREBE continued on the river. > Paul, About what time of day did you have the 17 terns flying upriver? We were birding at Black Hill Regional Park just before lunchtime (ANS Youth Birdathon) when we had 2 high flying long-tailed terns come in from over the lake. I think they were 2 of your earlier seen Common Terns, though we dismissed them at the time as Caspians. They were very long-tailed though, and this bothered me until I got home and read your message. Nice find! Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================