Spent an hour Saturday morning at Harve de Grace marina, checking the flats as the tide came in. Not terribly birdy, in part because of the three Bald Eafles, a persistent pest species at this location. Highlights: Least Sandpiper 3 Sanderling 1 Western Sandpiper 1 peep sp. 6 Laughing Gull 3 Caspian Tern 25 Forster's Tern 60 Common Tern 1 (winter adult with full carpal bar) Rick "Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive." Josephine Tey Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com Bel Air, Maryland