Hi all,A Black-bellied Whistling Duck was also observed
on Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge, here in Minnesota, by Pat and Dick Cabe (birders from
out of state w/ >700 North American birds on their lists). Richard WoodHastings, MN> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:11:31 -0700> From: > Subject: [MDOSPREY] birds and laundry> To: > > I'm getting better at this birds and laundry> thing...the first rare bird I couldn't see because I> was doing laundry when I found out about it was a> Black-legged Kittiwake in Montgomery County in the> 1990s.  Lord knows, I probably wouldn't have seen that> bird anyway.  > > The second one was the Frederick County Northern> Lapwing.  I didn't find out about it until the> afternoon after it was posted on MDOsprey (another> time I didn't check the internet for hours).  After a> few minutes I said "Bah!  Let them be wrinkled" and I> zoomed up there as fast as I could, and saw it.  > > This time, I've already seen the species in Maryland. > Not that it wouldn't be nice to see the species again.> > I wonder how many are in the District of Columbia> right now.    > > Rob Hilton> > >        > ____________________________________________________________________________________> Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.> http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469
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