About 30 years ago I had the pleasure to be standing on the edge of Black Marsh in eastern Baltimore County at sundown with Jim Statsz. The pleasure wasn't standing with Jim Stasz, everyone knows that can't be   ;^)  , it was in witnessing one of the true spectacles of spring when tens of thousands of diving ducks lauch off the bay in steady streams and vacate the Chesapeake for their summering grounds, their calls filling the skies with sound. The sounds were such that it gave the observer goose bumps in witnessing something that has been certainly going on longer than Europens have populated this land.

I bring this up because it is now just before 6:30 in the evening, the winds are out of the south at more than 10 MPH, the moon is waxing, and in the last 20 minutes more than 1,000 Canada Geese have passed the airport heading due north. If you read this message and have a chance to be near the shores of the bay, this might be the day; a spellbounding evening like that one I got to enjoy 30 years ago. If I was off work and able to be there, I'd head one more time to the bay on just the chance that I got to witness this spectacle at least one more time.

Please let me know if I'm right.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD