MDO: I just returned from a late afternoon trip to Point Lookout State Park in southern St. Mary's County, MD. At the point, I had very close looks at a NORTHERN GANNET and had 3 more on the Potomac side of the point. I saw one more from Cornfield Harbor but can't be certain that it wasn't one that I had seen before. As dusk settled in, around 6:45, I stood on the roadside across from the abandoned "Sister's Place" store just south of the monument. I had one AMERICAN WOODCOCK do a nice aerial display before he disappeared into the pines. I also had a PIED-BILLED GREBE at the end of Long Neck Road. Not much else of note. Good Birding! Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, MD