Sorry, in my rush to get this out the first time, I failed to check my spelling.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD
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From: Edward Boyd <> 
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Spring duck migration. 
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:34:29 +0000 

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 launch 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 Europeans 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 spell-bounding 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