Apologies if I'm breaking listserve rules, but this is too good 
not to share.  A BBC video of a new penguin behavior. ; )
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/01/video-exclusive-first-ever-images-of-the-world-s-only-flying-penguins-89520-20369322/

And to make this Maryland bird related, I saw a Great Black-backed 
Gull flying over US29 from Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia yesterday 
(3/31/08) evening.

Cheers,
Steve Collins
Towson, MD