While observing at Turkey Point today, I saw two birds fly overhead
that I could not begin to ID. At a distance they looked pure white,
but as they got closer I could see what looked like a black ring
around their necks, or at least where the neck and breast meet.
I would describe their overall shape as rather compact--no long
wings, no long necks. Their wings looked white on both sides,
though there may have been a little black on the upper wings.
They were moving a too fast for me to get a good look at them,
and with no other birds nearby I couldn't guess if they were sparrow-sized
and low or duck-sized and high. Does anyone have an idea what they might
possibly be? The single neck ring suggests a plover, but over Elk Neck???

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato