Well, Rick, Dave, and Mary Ann, I am glad that all of you were there at the same time! A big thanks to all three of you! Rob Hilton, who still hasn't seen this bird! robert@csa.com Bethesda by day At 07:59 AM 2/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >>There were three of us there on Saturday when the gull was found, but the one >>who found the Slaty-backed Gull, giving the old "Get on this bird," was Rick >>Blom. >> >>THANK YOU RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >>Mary Ann Todd >>Dave Czaplak > > Yeah, yeah. There are few folks so adept at tooting their own horn >as I am, but the truth is I did not have the foggiest notion what I was >looking at and fully expected Dave and Mary Ann to tell me it was "just >a...". If I had been alone none of you would have ever heard of this bird [snip]