Re: Conowingo Today
Gary A. Griffith (brdnsum@dpnet.net)
Sun, 25 Jan 98 08:29:35 PST
Rick,
Glad to see you got out. Hope chemo wasn't a bitch.
Went to the landfill for about an hour today for the midwinter count. Only about 1100-1200 gulls. 2 LBBG, and nothing else of note. Odd that there wasn't a single vulture in view anywhere in the area. Wonder if they're all circling the White House ?
Gary A. Griffith (BrdNSum@dpnet.net)
The Hummingbird Society
Elkton, Maryland
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> Spent five hours at Conowingo Dam today. There were about 1,000
> gulls. Among the usual loiterers there was an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED, a
> 1st winter GLAUCOUS, and a gorgeous adult ICELAND (KUMLEIN'S). The
> Peregrine Falcon was about in the morning and there were about 12 BALD
> EAGLES. 20 TUNDRA SWANS flew over.
> There was no evidence of the Common Gull, but there were two
> different 1st winter Ring-billed Gulls that would have been easily mistaken
> for the Common Gull by an unwary observer. There was also a report of a
> Golden Eagle - ignore it. The observers were looking at a Black Vulture and
> were not interested in being corrected. We stopped trying after a few
> seconds.
>
> In addition, since January 17 there has been an adult MERLIN at
> Sparrows Point in Baltimore County. I have seen it three times from the
> Beltway (I-695) about one mile east of the Key Bridge. The bird is fond of
> sitting on one of the string of four telephone (not light) poles along the
> highway.
>
> 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
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