Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:50:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Warren Strobel Subject: National Arboretum 1/6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For you DC birders: a (very) brief drive through the National Arboretum on the way to work this morning turned up a beautiful group of Hooded Mergansers (at least 2 males, 1 female) in the small pond off Hickey Lane (between the Lane and US Route 50), as well as a small group (3+) Blue Jays, flocks of robins and a raptor I could not identify hovering over Beach Spring Pond. There was a lot more birding to be done if only I'd had the time to linger. Sigh. Warren P. Strobel Annapolis, MD wstrobel@krwashington.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================