Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:03:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Re: : Golden Eagle at Blackwater; Ocean City Highlights MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, this afternoon I returned from Chincoteague by way of Ocean City and Blackwater NWR. The wind was wicked, and the birding slow. Assateague was almost birdless, except for a few scoters, loons (both), and gannets well off shore, and Yellowrumps being blown around the roadside shrubs. Ocean City was a bit better, with a good 50 Red-throated Loons at the inlet (one was right behind the motel at very close range), a few Surf Scoters, a few Brant, and half a dozen oystercatchers on the rocks across from the inlet. No harlequins or Purple Sandpipers today, but seas were very rough, and they were probably hunkered down somewhere out of sight. There were several Bonaparte's Gulls, but nothing else of interest among them. Blackwater NWR was also pretty dead; virtually no passerines in the heavy wind. However, an imm. GOLDEN EAGLE was seen flying across from impoundment 5c, over the trees at about 3:30 p.m. When I went to the visitor center shortly afterwards, I noticed another birder (from MD) had made a sighting entry of two golden eagles about an hour earlier, one in the general vicinity of where I had my sighting. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie blkrail@gateway.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================