Hi -- 



Barry and I did a run around the Beltsville Ag Research Ctr. this morning in hopes that the Sandhill Cranes Harry Armistead reported this morning (for a friend) might still be around. No luck on cranes but we did find a huge flock of Canada Geese along Powder Mill Rd. inside BARC. There were about 3500-4000 geese. We scanned them from 3 sides and located at least five Cackling Geese in the flock. (There could have been far more!) One bird sported a distinct white collar below the black neck stocking, and another was a very frosty bluish-gray on the back (easily picked out from the many many brownish gray Canadas). Considerable scanning did not yield any rarer geese -- alas. 



Nothing much else of interest other than the Bald Eagle pair was sitting around  and their nest seems to hold some fresh branches. 



Gail Mackiernan 

Colesville, MD