Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:23:24 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rob Hilton Subject: Gulls in DC, Razorbills in Maryland Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi Gail et al., The Feb. 15 gulls Paul Pisano refers to were in Washington Channel, off the two-way section of the road. The Glaucous Gull was pretty small, the size of many of the American Herring Gulls it was with. The primaries really did not project beyond the tail. Thanks, Paul, for calling us. Another day successfully dodging house-cleaning. At Ocean City inlet on Saturday afternoon, (Feb. 14), Lisa Shannon and John Hubbell and I had four Razorbills at once. Three of them came inside the mouth of the inlet so they were 100 or 200 feet from where I stood (saying "Oh my gosh there they are!"), surfacing and diving almost in unison, and staying close to each other. There may very well have been a fifth bird, as I had watched one swim slowly south some minutes before, showing no signs of wanting to turn around. I'm glad people got a chance to see these birds that afternoon. This morning, Feb. 16, the I saw the Orange-crowned Warbler in the Asian Garden in the National Arboretum, in northeast Washington, DC. I also saw a Brown Thrasher, a Red-breasted Nuthatch which came to the stream to drink, and a few American Robins. Along the marsh trail at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens I spotted a/the Red-headed Woodpecker. Cheers, Rob Hilton aimophila10@hotmail.com Silver Spring _________________________________________________________________ Keep up with high-tech trends here at "Hook'd on Technology." http://special.msn.com/msnbc/hookedontech.armx ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================