Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:06:00 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: numberous late reports for June MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Sorry for several late report. I have a very tight schedules with Hawk Watch Report, classes two days a week with tons of homework had limit my time for other things. I took a day off from work on Jun 10th to my grandparent's house for yard/moving sale in Delaware. Both had passed away less than a year apart and we are selling the house. At noon I went to Ocean City with my cousin to watch a 140 foot old Coast Guard ship to sunk 14 miles ESE of Ocean City Inlet for Reef habitat for fishes and I was there on a rescue mission try to save a cat that was reported on this ship, but was drown as the ship went down really fast. After that, went birding and had a lot of terns, cormorant, and pelicans. A pair of Sandwich terns was seen. A total of 43 species for the day including a Wilson's Storm-Petrel seen where the ship was sunk and a Gull-billed Tern offshore too. On June 18th at Valley Forge National Historical Park in PA (Not a MD list) during my camping event and had a lifer Henslow's Sparrow near The Tour Stop #2 at the Muhlenberg Barracks just pass the Visitor Center and also had 3 Field Sparrows and a Black-billed Cuckoo nearby just before we went on marching and doing a firelock drill for the crowds. On June 25th on a full day fishing trip out of Shaneytown Pier in West Ocean City, my and two of my friends went on a Head Boat going about 30 miles offshore and to my surprise I saw about 20 shearwaters at about 28 miles out on MD water, and many of them were Audubon's and later at 31 miles out, saw 11 more shearwaters with 6 Greater and 5 Audubon's and about 9 or so Wilson's Storm-Petrel. The Audubon's Shearwater was my lifer and the Greater was seen before, 3 years ago on a Maine trip. The last time I had a shearwater on Maryland or Delaware waters when on a fishing trip I think out of Indian River Inlet in July 1994 was 1 or 2 Sooty Shearwater(s) appear about 8 or 9 miles out and was headed NNE. I have been on many dozens fishing trips to the ocean and this is the only second record of shearwaters offshore of MD or Del I had. I usually get some Wilson Storm-Petrel few times. I thought they only seen about 50 miles out at the canyon, this birds was probably migrants, they were moving around for a while and few hours later, all were headed NEE except for two Greater Shearwaters remain until we were ready to leave with 14 Sea Bass in our cooler out of dozens we caught. Today 6/26 on my way home at around 820am, I saw a Brown Pelican over the Kent Narrows near the seawalls. A new county list with over 220 species total durng my two years at Queens Anne County, many species are from Horsehead. I will be going birding at Havre De grace hope to find any pelicans before or after the parade this Sat on July 1st, I will be in the parade with Revoluntary War re-enactment. I have been in 4th of July parades at Towson and Havre De Grace for years, the worst thing was wearing heavy gears and long wool coat and leather shoe in the heat. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================