This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01BE0760.F37D90E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I spent the day on a boat in the Potomac River at the Woodrow Wilson = Bridge looking at Bald Eagles. It rained steadily most of the day, with = a brisk northwest wind to add to the misery. However, as is often the = case when one suffers the most one is rewarded with good birds. Below is = a list of birds casually observed when not focusing on eagles. Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 25+ Great Blue Heron 10+ Great Egret 7-8 Canada Goose 75+ American Black Duck 4 Mallard 15+ Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal 4 Bufflehead 3 Bald Eagle 4 adults 6-8 immatures Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot flock of 30+ Greater Yellowlegs 2 Laughing Gull 6-10 Ring-billed Gull 15+ Herring Gull 4-6 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Forster's Tern 2 Rock Dove 3-5 SHORT-EARED OWL 1* Northern Flicker 1 American Crow 10+ Fish Crow 5-7 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 1 European Starling 25-30 Song Sparrow 3-4 White-throated Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 25+ American Goldfinch 2 * The Short-eared owl was first observed being mobbed by American Crows = over a grassy clearing on the National Harbors property just south of = the bridge on the Maryland side. The bird spiraled up and up until it = was a speck against the clouds and disappeared to the south. The = observation occurred at 1430 hours during a light rain. I even managed to catch a 5lb and 2lb large-mouth bass while keeping one = eye on a perched adult eagle! David Raleigh Smith ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01BE0760.F37D90E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">