June is also coming tomorrow. She's bringing the coffee, so Dana and I will make up a couple of egg casseroles instead. Here's the corrected food list:

MAK-Pumpkin Roll
Braveheart (?)-Bagels & Cream Cheese
Lucy-Donut Holes
Lisa McK -Donuts (Dozen)
Ruth-Donuts (Dozen)
Bonnie- Falcon Toast & Chicken Pate
Carla-Surprise
Suzanne – Bagels , cream cheese
Lynda/Tim - A cool pastry/coffee cake thing (and tattoos!)
Joyce - Cut-up fruit, small bowls and spoons.
Lou/Dana - Egg Casseroles
June- Coffee
Jeanne - Juice, cups, something sweet and probably something else
Carol P. - Plates, Forks, Knives, Napkins, etc.
Brian-Said he is bringing some kind of pastry or bread
Marcia - Cinnamon rolls

 

Now that's a Continental Breakfast. Too bad I can't be there. Enjoy guys, have fun.

Such a cool name! Thanks for posting!

Sorry so late Watcher Ei aka (Dumpsterkitty): 5:10pm B & C dining on FCT. A on OCSR, flying due soon.

2:48pm MAK, Brian and Ei on S Ave. garage: C and A on Frontier Comm Tower.

Oh what a great story and slide show. Thanks so much jeanne. 

7:28 Beauty under NE wing TS. Callidora still on Mercury, food dangling from her beak. She just took off and went behind Xerox building.

Callidora and Beauty on base of Mercury. 7:08am MAK

MAK reports: 7:03 Callidora on base of Mercury eating, feathers flying. No A or B.

MAK/Dan reports: Beauty flew right above them, she is molting. Missing a feather on each wing...easy to ID in flight. MAK heading over to garage.

I was in my Arlington office and I felt nothing.  It was south of Gaithersburg, MD - Helen, did you feel it?  Paul - you guys feel it on your side of town.  Anyway, lots of phone calls, but that is it.

Wow Janet!

Earthquake rattles Maryland early this morning
Homes shake and wake residents up early morning

Montgomery County, MD - The DC area and parts of Maryland have been shaken by a minor earthquake early this morning. The quake hit at 5:04 a.m. EDT and had a magnitude of 3.6.

ABC2 News has been flooding with calls into the newsroom. We are a photographer out talking to people who felt the earthquake. A lot of people have felt the earthquake in Carroll County, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City.

The quake was centered in the Rockville, Md., area said Randy Baldwin, a physicist with U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

Gloria Jackson, a police communications supervisor for the Montgomery County Police Department, said the department has gotten numerous calls about the earthquake, but that no injuries or significant property damage had been reported as of 5:35 a.m.

MAK/Dan report: All 3 on Midtown.

The bird is almost certainly "Tee-Dee", a male anatum peregrine

The last update on him "TEE DEE"  was Dec 30 2003. Wonder what happened to him? He was "transmitted" in July 2003. Thanks Joyce.

I finally found the REALLY slow public computer here at the Raddison-tiny room back by the garage-creepy!  Anyway-

Met up with MAK at City Hall.  She graciously drove me all around town until we FINALLY found Beauty and Callidora on the jail comm tower.  Callidora is GINORMOUS!  They took off to the east & we followed.

Found Callidora (and Beauty hiding) on HSBC.  Jeanne, Shaky & Carrie joined us. C did some beautiful flying-you could just tell she was flying just because it was fun!  She and Beauty played some talon tag then flew way out east then back.  Around Xerox...scared up some crows.  Eventually Archer came in and we saw all 3 flying together! Archer took off west...Beauty took a trip out east then suddenly showed up on Midtown...then Callidora took of way to the west.  At that point it was getting too dark to see. 

It was great to meet MAK & see Jeanne, Shaky & Carrie again!  Can't wait to see the rest of the gang & meet some new friends!  Goodnight!

Whoo hoo....the DK's in town. Thanks Ei and thanks MAK for taking her around. (GINORMOUS) LOL

   I never heard of these birds before, thanks Donna.   

Me either, maybe why so rare  ???

Newswise — A Cornell Lab of Ornithology team working in the Gulf has documented what may be the worst oil spill devastation of a major bird colony so far.

The documentary and research team, led by biologist and multimedia producer Marc Dantzker, first visited Raccoon Island on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on June 18, 2010, and found one of the largest waterbird colonies in the state to be oil free and in excellent health.

The team returned July 11 and 12 after hearing reports from local biologists of significant oil landfall with impact to birds. The team found oil present on rocks and all along the beaches. Almost all of the juvenile brown pelicans they saw had at least some oil on them, and they estimated that roughly 10 percent were “badly oiled.� Roughly forty percent of juvenile terns also had visible oil on them.

Dantzker said he suspects high seas driven by Hurricane Alex and a full moon may have contributed to the disaster.

“The island has a single line of inshore boom on the bay side, and in some places this boom showed signs that oil splashed over the top and there was oil on shore behind these booms,� Dantzker said. “What Gulf-side boom there previously was has been destroyed and is washed up in piles, or deep into the island.�

Dantzker said the oil impact on the island’s massive bird colonies is by far the worst he has seen in the Gulf to date.