This is the first season report from Conowingo Da,. I was there from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Cool, cloudy and windy but no rain and only one small generator operating. Double-crested Cormorant 23 Great Blue Heron 50 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (imm) Canada Goose 14 Mallard 3 Black Duck 2 Turkey Vulture 6 Black Vulture 2 Bald Eagle 4 (2 ad; 2 imm) Killdeer 1 Bonaparte's Gull 1 (juv) Ring-billed Gull 125 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 16 Forster's Tern 135 Caspian Tern 1 Rock Dove 100 European Starling 55 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 White-throated Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 5 American Goldfinch 12 Rick Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com Bel Air, Maryland "Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats." Rebecca West