Folks: On my way down to the Pax River this morning to look at waterfowl, I spied 2 birds hawking insects over a field. When I stopped to look at them, they were Purple Martins! Seems really early to me. -- Good Birding! The probability of a given Tyler Bell event occurring is inversely mailto:bell@say.acnatsci.org proportional to its desirability. California, MD http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/smas/