Conowingo Dam on Election Day

rick (rblom@blazie.com)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 07:06:28 -0500


        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
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