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Jane & Tyler,

I echo Rick's thanks for your help on March 6. It was great to finally meet
you and share the bird with you. What a spectacular, and accommodating,
creature! In addition, an osprey flew by, heralding spring.

We (Gemma Radko and myself) headed down to Point Lookout afterward and saw
the same things Rick saw--including Rick and Mike and Ralph themselves! One
additional find was a palm warbler (apparently a pale palmarum) among the
throngs of yellow-rumps and bluebirds at the picnic area just before the
lighthouse.Also, two pectoral sandpipers and about 18 snipe were in a wet
field at the intersection of Rte. 5 and the white-fronted goose road
(forgot the name) near the park entrance. (A professor and his class tipped
us off on the pectorals.) We had no luck finding the goose, by the way. 

Howard Youth
Rockville, Md
hmyouth@erols.com

At 07:55 AM 3/7/99 EST, you wrote:
>Jane & Tyler, 
>
> It was great meeting you both on Saturday AM. Once again the Kelp put on a
>great showing, and I was pleased to be able to show it to my friend Mike.
Mike
>has been house-bound for a few months, unable to bird as often as he likes
and
>the trip to St. Mary's county was terrific. After viewing the gull, and
>getting directions to Point Lookout sites from you, we headed down there. The
>fishing pier gave us great looks at (only) two scoter species (white-winged
>and surf), Red-breasted Mergs, lots of Oldsquaws (many already changing to
>alternate plumage), Lesser Scaup, and a lone gannet. 
> Point Lookout offered us Common Loons, more oldsquaws, Horned Grebes, and a
>few more "performing" gannets. It was a great day, and we even managed to
>avoid most of the rain, having driven through the bulk of it.
> It was nice to meet you both, and thanks to Tyler for the excellent looks
>through his scope at the Kelp Gull. You two should probably get a special
>commendation from MOS for your efforts to help everyone get on this bird, and
>for acting , in general, as birding hosts to St. Mary's County!
>
>Warblerick@aol.com
>Rick Sussman
>Ashton,MD
>

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