HARVE DE GRACE: OCT. 17, 97

Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 20:25:38 -0400 

        I visited the marina at Harve de grace today from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Tidal flat moderate. Cool, cloudy, breezy.

Pied-billed Grebe               14
Double-crested Cormorant        6
Great Blue Heron                15
Canada Goose                    130
Mallard                         100+ (many "dock mallards")
Gadwall                         1
Bald Eagle                      1 (imm)
American Coot                   100
Killdeer                        2
Greater Yellowlegs              1
Dunlin                          1
LAUGHING GULL                   1 (imm)
Ring-billed Gull                350
Herring Gull                    23
Great Black-backed Gull         8
Forster's Tern                  75
Caspian Tern                    7
Belted Kingfisher               1
American Crow                   2
Fish Crow                       1
Crow sp.                        11 (see below)
Black-throated Green Warbler    1

        There was a single crow on the flats that had nearly entirely white
secondaries and tertials, except for a small black tip on each feather that
l;argely obscured the pattern when the bird was sittign. It was strikingly
obvious when the bird was in flight.

        Exotic note: Yesterday I had a free-flying (and obviously escaped!)
Budgerigar on the telephone lines in the parking lot of the laundromat next
to the 7-11 at the intersection of Rte. 175 and the B-W Parkway in Laurel,
Prince George's County.

Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked
birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
Rebecca West