I didn't see the bird anywhere when I arrived after 7:15 yesterday evening.  Rats.  

Rob Hilton

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Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Glossy Ibis at Hains Point, DC


As of 6:30 this evening, the glossy ibis was still at East Potomac Park,
in more or less the same area described by Michael Bowen. By the time I
arrived this evening, it had moved from the golf course (too many
golfers, I suppose) to the grassy strip between the road and Washington
Channel, just beyond the parking lot where the out-bound road becomes
one-way. I was able to watch it picking through the grass for some time
from about ten feet away; it did not seem disturbed by my presence or by
the bicycles racing past.

A hundred or more laughing gulls were gathered on the north end of the
golf course.

John Beetham
Washington, DC

Lydia Schindler wrote:

> Mike Bowen is delighted to be looking at an adult GLOSSY IBIS at Hains
> Point, SW DC. The bird is on the 7th fairway on the golf course, which
> can best be seen along the cross road--which cuts over to the road that
> leads out to the point--across from the park service building.
>
> Lydia Schindler
> Darnestown
>