Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:00:09 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: Fwd: [va-bird] Isabel in Northampton County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_184.207efff8.2c9bbd29_boundary" --part1_184.207efff8.2c9bbd29_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *********************** Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com Costa Mesa, CA ************************ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= --part1_184.207efff8.2c9bbd29_boundary Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A ride around Cape Charles and Oyster this afternoon til dark produced field= s=20 full of gulls and terns, among them about 5000 Laughing Gulls and smaller=20 numbers of Ring-billed, Great Black-backed, and Herring Gulls, 290 Forster's= , 50=20 Common, 50 Caspian, 90 Royal, 45 Common, 1 Roseate (in Cape Charles harbor,=20 photographed), and 1 adult Bridled Tern (at turn off to Cheriton, photograph= ed=20 at 1/4 second!) sitting with mixed Laughing Gull /tern flock, 6 Black Skimme= rs,=20 and 5 Sandwich Terns. Tricolored Herons are a common sight overhead as the=20 gales blow; a few Chimney Swifts and Tree Swallows zing by as well. The=20 village of Oyster was fully flooded at high tide around 1400 hrs; the wrack=20= line=20 from receding waters was almost before the beginning of the town. We lost=20 another huge 100-year-old tree in the yard; it fell on the neighbors' garage= and=20 split it in half. What a mess. At least the waters have receded, even if w= inds=20 are still well above 90 mph. A female Black-and-white Warbler is taking=20 shelter in a small dogwood off the back of the house; what a sight she makes= , poor=20 thing, just hanging on in the lee of the house. =20 Ned Brinkley Cape Charles, VA=20 You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send ema= il to va-bird@freelists.org. To unsubscribe, send email to va-bird-request@freelists.org with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --part1_184.207efff8.2c9bbd29_boundary-- =========================================================================