Re: Conowingo Today
Gary A. Griffith (brdnsum@dpnet.net)
Sun, 25 Jan 98 08:36:44 PST
Disclaimer:
This was to have been a private message to Rick. Hope nobody takes offense. Apologies. I prostrate myself humbly upon the Living Room floor.
Gary A. Griffith (BrdNSum@dpnet.net)
The Hummingbird Society
Elkton, Maryland
(302) 369-3699 Society
(410) 392-4491 Home
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> 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
> (302) 369-3699 Society
> (410) 392-4491 Home
>
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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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