Date: 3/9/13 7:42 pm
From: <pvaldata1...> <pvaldata1...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Re: Extralimital Crested Caracara - yes


Life bird! Details below.
Pat Valdata
Elkton, Md

Patricia Valdata <pvaldata...> wrote:

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Delaware Birding [mailto:<de-birds...>] On Behalf Of Patricia
>Valdata
>Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:19 PM
>To: <de-birds...>
>Subject: Re: [de-birds] Crested Caracara - yes
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>Maryanne Dolan and I (we're both from the Cecil Bird Club) saw the bird
>around 4:45-4:50 this afternoon at the Irons Lane-Buckeye Lane intersection
>near Dagsboro. Life bird for me! The couple who were there when we arrived
>said we had missed it by about 20 minutes. But it flew in shortly afterwards
>and we had excellent views through binoculars as the bird circled the fields
>at treetop level. It made a complete circle around us and then disappeared
>beyond the trees to the west; I surmised that it was looking for a place to
>roost. We waited until about 5:10 and didn't see it again so left the
>vicinity.
>
>We stopped at Bombay Hook's entrance gate on the way home and joined quite a
>few other birders in hopes of getting the Barn and Short-eared Owls; saw one
>owl briefly in silhouette but not a good enough view to tell what kind. A
>few people heard Great Horned Owls. We also heard a strange, raspy call,
>four of them in quick succession, but couldn't identify the caller. The
>sound did come from the trees, though.
>
>We heard several Woodcock peenting and doing their display flights. Large
>skeins of Snow Geese flew in and their calls drowned out everyone except the
>Spring Peepers, but they looked gorgeous against the sky glow after sunset.
>
>
>Pat Valdata
>Elkton, MD
>

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