I covered the marina at Havre de Grace from 3:10 - 6:00 p.m. Cool, cloudy, breezy. Pied-billed Grebe 16 Double-crested Cormorant 30 Great Blue Heron 12 GREAT EGRET 1 (sitting on flats) Canada Goose 750 (500 flyovers) Mallard 100+ (many dock mallards) Northern Shoveler 2 RING-NECKED DUCK 1 (female) Bald Eagle 2 (imm) American Coot 135 Killdeer 18 Laughing Gull 9 (all adults; # high here this late) Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 250 (1 in full juvenile plumage) Herring Gull 115 (over 40 in juv/1st winter) LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 (1st summer/2nd winter transition) Great Black-backed Gull 22 Forster's Tern 125 Mourning Dove 8 Rock Dove 16 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Tree Swallow 16 Fish Crow 7 American Crow 2 crow sp. 5 Blue Jay 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Carolina Chickadee 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 European Starling 40 Northern Mockingbird 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 20 Northern Cardinal 2 Song Sparrow 3 House Finch 3 House Sparrow 100 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