Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:59:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Shaffer Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull & Snow Goose My lunchtime gull tally at Schoolhouse Pond today (1/6) turned up a 1st winter Lesser Black-backed Gull. Also present were 3 Great Black Backed Gulls (1 adult, 1 3rd winter & 1 2nd winter), 26 Herring Gulls, and 180 Ring-billed Gulls. When I walked around the pond before work this morning, 1 Snow Goose was present with the approximately 500 Canada Geese. All the geese including the Snow Goose had left by lunchtime. A Great Egret was also present, as well as about 30 Shovelers. Fred Shaffer Patuxent Bird Club glaucousgull1611@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================