This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDD606.F2A21BE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes, Lake Churchill! =20 It's that small lake in Germantown between Father Hurley Blvd. and = Little Seneca Lake (Black Hill Regional Park). On a lunchtime health walk around the lake, in the swampy area at the = south end, (nearest Papa H. Blvd.) in addition to 2 Spotted Sandpipers = and a Killdeer, I encountered a Great Blue Heron, Green Heron and an = immature Night-Heron. At the time I thought it was a Yellow-Crowned, = but after checking the books, it may be a Black-Crowned. (Hey, I was = getting exercise so I didn't carry my Peterson's, and I don't have all = the juvenals sorted out yet.<g> I'll have to go back again armed with = reference materials!) On the water in addition to Canadas, Mallards, = Black Ducks, Woodies and DC Cormorants, were a pair of Pied-billed = Grebes -- the first I've seen this season.=20 Then some A......hem, Jerk, fired a gun and his dog splashed into the = water after a stick or something. Is it legal to train dogs and shoot = firearms in community lakes? Can't be, but who's going to yell at a guy = with a gun and an unleashed dog? Well, that was the end of the = waterfowl..... So I went over to the paved paths in Black Hill. The resident = Red-headed Woodpeckers were doing their thing as usual in the snags on = the far side, but otherwise it was pretty quiet. (Of course it was = during lunch/birdy nap-time so that's not surprising.) Happy Birding! Roger Stone Germantown, MD ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDD606.F2A21BE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">