This is the Comnowingo Dam report for April 4, 1998. Observer was Rick Blom from 3:30 - 5:15 p.m. Overcast, cool, damp, breezy. Double-crested Cormorant 145 Great Blue Heron 80 (at least 30 sitting on nests) Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 (adults in tree where nest was last year) Canada Goose 2 Black Vulture 110 Turkey Vulture 30 Osprey 7 Bald Eagle 3 (2 ad; 1 imm) Great Black-backed Gull 16 Herring Gull 9 Ring-billed Gull 34 gull sp. 2500 (flying high downriver) Rock Dove 50 Mourning Dove 2 Tree Swallow 400 Barn Swallow 4 Rough-winged Swallow 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Winter Wren 1 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 crow sp. 16 Carolina Chickadee 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 European Starling 40 Yellow-rumped Warbler 20 Palm Warbler 2 Common Grackle 300 Red-winged Blackbird 25 Butterflies Cabbage White 3 In Bloom White Trillium Dutchman's Breeches Heal-all Gill-over-the-ground Pennsylvania Bittercress Spring Beauty Garlic Mustard (very tangy taste this spring) Common Chickweed May Apple Jack-in-the-pulpit Spring Cress Dandelion (in seed already) Skunk Cabbage "Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive." Josephine Tey Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com Bel Air, Maryland