>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:48:59 -0400
>To:  
>From: Howard Youth <>
>Subject: Bittern continues along Beach Drive
>
>Thank you to Herbert Roth for reporting the Beach Drive bittern, 
>which apparently has been hanging around (unless another replaced it 
>in around the same area). This a.m., I was driving my kids to 
>school, headed east on Beach Drive, just beyond the intersection 
>with Kensington Parkway. At the edge of the first little canal-like 
>channel to the right stood an American bittern. Both kids got to see 
>it as well. It craned its neck at one point, perhaps concerned about 
>our car being there? When I returned to the area around 10 a.m., the 
>bird was gone. If you see this bird, I think it's best to pull your 
>car just off the road rather than getting out. The bird was fairly 
>close to the road and out in the open.
>
>Howard Youth
>Bethesda, MD
>
>
>At 09:43 AM 3/24/2007, you wrote:
>>Had a surprising AM. BITTERN along Beach Drive near Kensington 
>>Parkway this morning.
>>
>>Herbert Roth
>>Kensington