Hi all, Went to Conowingo Dam today (11:25am-1:35pm) to see if there were anything good. The generators and several floodgates was open and created a massive waves which attracts more than 20,000 Ring-billed and some rare gulls. 2 Great Blue Heron (on higher rocks on Cecil side) 3 Black-crowned Night Heron (1 ad. & 2 imm. at end of the island) 13 Common Goldeneye (above dam) 102 Common Merganser 26,059 Ring-billed Gull (20,393 below dam for two mile long downstream and 5,666 above dam) 1,055 Herring Gull (1,016 below dam and 39 above dam) 498 Great Black-backed Gull (480 below dam and 18 above dam) 25 Bonaparte's Gull (20 below dam and 5 above dam) 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (1 ad. and 1 1st winter on wall in middle of dam with several Herring and Great Black-backed) 1 THAYER'S GULL (1 1st winter in water between island and dam, was observe for 20 minutes until took flight with rest of the gulls) 6 Turkey Vulture 13 Black Vulture 5 Bald Eagle (2 ad., 2 1st winter, & 1 3rd winter) 1 Red-tailed Hawk 314 Rock Dove 2 Mourning Dove 10 Am. Crow 6 Fish Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 1 Brown Creeper 4 N. Cardinal 1 N. Mockingbird 8 Am. Robin 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 17 "Yellow-rumped" Warbler 29 "Slate-colored" Junco Old Railroad bridge along Stafford Rd. at the river and Deer Creek at northeast corner of Susquehanna State Park near Robert and Wood Islands: 202 Ring-billed Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 7 Bonaparte's Gull, 1 hen Bufflehead on calm cove just inside of river next to the bridge, 1 drake and 12 hen Common Goldeneye along creek just inside of the bridge and a pair of Mallard along creek, 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker, 3 N. Cardinal, 2 N. Mockingbird, 1 Red-tailed Hawk, 1 Cooper's Hawk near the open grassland, 6 Turkey Vulture, 4 Black Vulture, 20 Song Sparrow, 10 White-throated Sparrow, 21 "Slate-colored" Junco, 2 adult Bald Eagle on Robert Island, 35 Red-winged Blackbird flyby, 32 Common Grackle flyby, and 1 Am. Kestrel in nearby field. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com