Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:22:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull near Easton WWTP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This morning (March 8th) a visit to North Dover Road in = Talbot County (the approach route to the Easton Waste Water Treatment Plant = office spaces) was rewarded with great views of gulls resting in the fields on = each side of the road. Only about 500 birds were present, and they were not particularly edgy, and the lighting was great. Under these conditions = five gull species were easily studied - mostly Ring-bills, but several dozen Laughing Gulls, several dozen Herring Gulls, close to a dozen Great Black-backed Gulls, and one beautiful and cooperative adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. The field north of this road held several Killdeer and a = flock of Canada Geese along with some of the gulls. During the Sunday Morning visit by the Talbot Bird Club, the same field yielded several Wilson's = Snipe and a single American Pipit. The latter two species were not evident = today. =20 Les Roslund Lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton MD 21601 =20 =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 =========================================================================