Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My birder friend Bill Beaty found a male Hooded Merganser this afternoon in a pond behind his house in Laguna Vista (Cameron County) - so happy he called me - lifer and patch bird #258 for me! Madeleine Sandefur Laguna Vista, TX Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner