I visited the marina at Harve de grace today from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Tidal flat moderate. Cool, cloudy, breezy. Pied-billed Grebe 14 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 15 Canada Goose 130 Mallard 100+ (many "dock mallards") Gadwall 1 Bald Eagle 1 (imm) American Coot 100 Killdeer 2 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Dunlin 1 LAUGHING GULL 1 (imm) Ring-billed Gull 350 Herring Gull 23 Great Black-backed Gull 8 Forster's Tern 75 Caspian Tern 7 Belted Kingfisher 1 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 1 Crow sp. 11 (see below) Black-throated Green Warbler 1 There was a single crow on the flats that had nearly entirely white secondaries and tertials, except for a small black tip on each feather that l;argely obscured the pattern when the bird was sittign. It was strikingly obvious when the bird was in flight. Exotic note: Yesterday I had a free-flying (and obviously escaped!) Budgerigar on the telephone lines in the parking lot of the laundromat next to the 7-11 at the intersection of Rte. 175 and the B-W Parkway in Laurel, Prince George's County. 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