Bryan Monk and I were at Conowingo Dam on Tuesday, November 3, 1998, from 7:30 - 10:00 a.m. We spent most of the time looking at the river above the dam. Along with the usual suspects, highlights included: Red-throated Loon 1 Common Loon 9 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 15 BLACK SCOTER 16 Oldsquaw 4 (arrival) Bufflehead 1 (female; arrival) Lesser Scaup 23 (arrival) Bonaparte's Gull 200 Ring-billed Gull 1500 Forster's Tern 20 In addition, Bryan had 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS at the marina in Havre de Grace on Monday, November 2 Rick "Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086