Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:15:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Sunday, 2/18, Razorbill, MD, White Pelican, DE Comments: cc: de-birds@list.audubon.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jane and I were at the Ocean City Inlet at about 9am. Dave Czaplak, Mary = Ann Todd, Jim Stasz and Mark Hoffman were assembled there after viewing = the Razorbill. We waited for about an hour but it didn't return. So, we = headed north. First stop was the VFW at the end of Cedar Neck Rd. on Indian River Bay = where we spied the White Pelican sitting on the sand bar. It briefly = preened giving looks at the outstretched wing and orange legs before = tucking back in. We tried to see it from the fish cleaning shack at the = south marina at IR Inlet with no luck. We hit Silver Lake and Spring Lake = but did not find the female Tufted Duck. Marty Cribb showed us the = luecistic Ruddy Duck that he had seen last week. We headed back down to OC Inlet, arriving at 2:30pm where another group of = birders were watching the juvy Razorbill feeding in the rip on the south = side of the jetty. It started coming in closer until it was within the = outermost rock on the south jetty giving excellent looks. For quite a = while it was content to just float and swim and preen before it began = feeding and becoming harder to see. We headed for home around 2:40 and the only thing of note on the way was a = huge flock of grackles near Rt. 13. It must have been about 50,000 birds. = They swarmed onto the road at times causing cars to slam on brakes. We = tried in vain to find a Yellow-headed Blackbird. Oh well! Good Birding! Tyler Bell (and Jane Kostenko) bell@acnatsci.org California, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================