Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:04:43 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "David F. Brinker" Organization: Project Owlnet Subject: Re: Surf Scoters; Bodkin Island Report MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MD Bird Fanatics, The White Pelican has recently been hanging out in the wetlands cell of the Poplar Island restoration project. The attractiveness of this area is probably the many small fish that it can forage on. How often it makes trips over to Bodkin, if at all any more, I have no idea. It may even have shifted its main haunts from Bodkin to Poplar. Earlier during the season when we made more regular trips to Bodkin to census nesting colonial waterbirds it was a regular; but from what folks have recently posted to the Osprey, it sounds like it is now pretty irregular at Bodkin. Also, just FYI, the Poplar restoration project has already attracted over 400 pair of nesting Common Terns and two small Least Tern colonies that total approximately 20 pair. One of the design objectives was to provide nesting habitat for colonial waterbirds - build it and they will come! Best regards all, Dave Brinker Catonsville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================