On 3/14 I was birding in Charles County and had just stepped onto the  little 
sandy beach at Chapel Point State Park ... just in time to see a very  large, 
very black bird with a very large, black bill pumping sedately  away from me, 
southward, over the middle of the Port Tobacco River.   I've spent the last 
five days trying to convince myself that I was seeing  things.  "Can't be a 
Raven" "Nevermore"  Problem --- Nothing else  would fit.  [Gwen, you've saved me 
from eternal self-doubt.]  The  RAVEN goes on my list!
 
Other birds seen there that day were an even dozen Black Vultures, a  first 
year Bald Eagle, one Osprey, 200 Ruddy Ducks, 50 Lesser Scaup and about  200 
scaup (sp), 3 Buffleheads.
 
Louis Nielsen  
Reisterstown, MD