Date: 3/22/13 5:12 pm
From: jugbayjs <JugBayJS...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Duck!! (Holy @#$%, that was not a bird!)


Duck! As in "hit the dirt!

At ~ 7:53 pm (minutes ago) I was at home (Jug Bay, PG Co), watching for evening flights/woodcocks. I had just heard some wood ducks buzz by low, their wings whistling in the wind. All of a sudden I heard a much louder FFFFFF, expecting more ducks but somehow so close they sounded LOUD. Instead, what I saw was a meteorite, VERY LOW, shooting at about NNE and blazing orange. Weird thing was, after a second or two it turned green and blue before losing color altogether. I was expecting to hear a crash, but nothing else was heard. From the trajectory, it looked bound for a landing somewhere in AA County, or maybe the Bay if it made it that far.

The lowest one I have ever seen. Absolutely freakish weird. Loud! After that, my next thought was lookout - as in turn around and look, wondering if there would be any others coming this direction, but after 3-4 minutes I gave up looking and ran inside to make this post! By the way, I did hear one woodcock...

Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD

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