Now I'm back. The trip to Fox Island on Virginia line about a mile south of Maryland line was great, but is cold while sleeping (no heating). This large house is sitting on the water and has a great view od sunrise and sunset on both side of the house. Common Loon - 1 Red-throated Loon - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 93 (plus several flyby headed south) Brown Pelican - 132 (some small flocks left for south) Great Blue Heron - 3 (2 in V-form with 10 Snowy Egret headed south) Great Egret - 1 Snowy Egret - 2 Canada Goose - 1 Mallard - 2 Am. Black Duck - 4 Lesser Scaup - 25 (in flock headed south) White-winged Scoter - 7 (flocks of 35, 22, 16, 23, 7 and 8 headed south) Clapper Rail - 1 (seen on low tide pond on Clump Island, north of Fox) Black-bellied Plover - 8 (winter plumage in low tide pond at Clump Is.) Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 on sandbar at Clump Is. Greater Yellowleg - 3 on sandbar at Clump Is. Sanderling - 4 on sandbar at Clump Is. Western Sandpiper - 3 on sandbar at Clump Is. Least Sandpiper - 1 on sandbar at Clump Is. Laughing Gull - 7 Ring-billed Gull - 43 Herring Gull - 72 Great Black-backed Gull - 67 Caspian Tern - 1 on Fri and 2 on Sat. Royal Tern - 2 flyby on Sat and Sun. Osprey - 1 on Fri. N. Harrier - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyby headed southwest on Sat. Merlin - 1 flyby Peregrine Falcon - 1 flyby C. Flicker - (Clump Is.) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (in low bushes at Clump Is.) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (female landed on pier at Fox Is. on Sat) "Slate-colored" Junco - 1 (female landed on roof on house at Fox. Is) Boat-tailed Grackle - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 9 Elliot, you got a nice day for hawk watch at Washington Mon. I was there last Sept in '97, but got only 17 hawks. Now I'm going back to my hawkwatch tomorrow. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com