Interesting.... at about 7:15 we were at Wooten's landing, we were just standing around listening to the hundreds of mixed blackbirds in the trees around us. Just a fantastic spring sound! We heard a hissing sound, and all the birds fell silent, then lifted up and shifted a few hundred feet before settling again. The timing isn't right for your meteorite, unless there was a bit before then that buzzed by. No colors and we didn't see anything but the shifting birds....
Oh, yes, a little later we did see a woodcock, too ... and earlier we heard a turkey.
Joanne
Joanne Howl, DVM
<jovet...>
West River, MD
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From: jugbayjs <JugBayJS...>
To: mdbirding <mdbirding...>
Sent: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 8:12 pm
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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