Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:43:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Another Little Gull in Kent Co. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Everybody, After a meeting with the Wayne Bell & Martha Shaum (on Kent Co. atlas = matters) I took a short detour from my usual route home to check a few = favorite locations. On Handy Point Road (running east from the Melitota = crossroad on MD-298) about a half-mile beyond the turn for Great Oak = Landing there was a good sized flock of gulls in a barren looking soy = field with a duck blind overlooking a drained winter pond on the north = side of the road including one adult *Little Gull*. The flock also = contained a single Laughing Gull, 70 Bonaparte's Gulls, and 170 = Ring-bills.=20 There were 8 Gadwall and 13 Hooded Mergansers in a small pond west of = Fish Hatchery Road just north of the Wood's Edge apartment complex. Last = and certainly not least we had our first Purple Finch of the year at our = feeder this afternoon. Nice to finally see the sun again, but Lord it's = airy out there. Good Birding & Atlasing, Walter Ellison MD-DC Atlas Coordinator - MOS 23460 Clarissa Road Chestertown, MD 21620 phone: 410-778-9568 e-mail: rossgull@crosslink.net "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. = White (in "Stuart Little") =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================