>Rick Blom said: > > > It was announced today >> that at 5:00 p.m. this evening they will be opening 20 >> floodgates at the dam. This has happened in 3 of the past 5 >> years and in each case it was the end of gulls at the dam for >> at least eight months. > >Rick, will the gulls move off to another nearby area or do they >move out entirely? Naturally, I am thinking of our Conowingo >trip for next week. > Fran: I suspect that they move south and to the coast, but we do not know. We won't know the effect of this year's episode until late in the week. Maybe someone will drop in Thursday or Friday (I'll be out of the area then). Rick "Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com Bel Air, Maryland