Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:03:22 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marty Cribb Organization: tqci.net Subject: Royal Tern St Mary's City Comments: To: Southern Maryland Birding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Everyone, Sorry for the late post but wanted to make sure this was noted even if a day late. I had to make two quick runs to Point Lookout yesterday and managed to squeeze in some birding. While traveling south on Md Rt 5 (Point Lookout Rd) and going thru St Mary's College I saw a perched Royal Tern in almost complete alternate plumage loafing on a tall pressure treated piling about 25-30 yds off the shoreline in the St Mary's River. This piling is just off the mitigation beach on the north end of the campus. The sandbar at the mouth of the creek also on the north end of the campus held Forster's Terns and 1 Laughing Gull along with numerous Ring-billed Gulls. Point Lookout off the causeway was also birdy with a small raft of 21 Red-breasted Merganser's, 60-70 Horned Grebes in all different plumage variations, 6 Common Loon, 8 Long-tailed Duck, numerous Bufflehead. The Merg's were split 11 female and 10 males and were actively fishing at the mouth of Tanner's Creek on the north end of the causeway. Good Birding, Marty Cribb, Callaway, St Mary's Co, Md --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by tqci.net] ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================