Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:07:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull at Maine Ave docks (+ no SI Rufous) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline A walk out to the Tidal Basin produced even fewer gulls than yesterday. There are some gulls sitting on the ice near the Maine Ave fish docks, and one of these was a first-winter Lesser Black-backed Gull. No SI Rufous appeared during another 10-minute sit in the Ripley Garden. Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felleyj@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================