Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:30:44 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Marcia E. Balestri" Subject: Re: E Shore Weekend In-Reply-To: <017701c172ea$dcc9a200$277ff2d0@bcpl.net.us> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit It seemed like all the wigeon's in the world were at Pickering Beach on Sunday. Like you, we didn't see any anywhere else we looked. -- Marcia E. Balestri Frederick, MD > From: Steve Sanford > Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:15:56 -0500 > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] E Shore Weekend > > Here's a late report of an Eastern Shore birding weekend that John Landers > and I did together. Saturday (Nov 17) was in Delaware: Bombay Hook, Cape > Henlopen, Silver Lake, and Indian River Inlet. Sunday (Nov 18) we did EA > Vaughn and Truitt's Landing, OC Inlet, West OC Pond, and Deal Island. > > Our best bird was a well-seen and heard Sedge Wren at Truitt's Landing. By > sound there were probably 2 more there. We failed to find any Sharp-tailed > Sparrows or LeConte's. We squeaked out a Short-eared Owl at Deal in the dark > as we were leaving, as so often happens. But no Black-crowned Night-Herons > there! A surprise was a Prairie Warbler at Bombay Hook. Also a little > surprising were 2 Semipalmated Plovers at Port Mahon. Gannets were rather > numerous and fairly close at OC Inlet. Surf Scoters were also fairly > numerous at the coastal locations. > > Overall, though, our birding was kind of disappointing. Waterfowl numbers > and variety seemed surprisingly low, e.g. no Wigeon anywhere, and Mergansers > (Hooded) were ONLY at West OC Pond. However, the close-up Gw Teal and > Pintails at Bombay Hook's Bear Swamp were great. We found no Harlequin or > Purple Sandpipers at OC Inlet, probably because there were MANY boaters > there. > > We got 109 species for the weekend. We also got a good look at the meteor > shower near Assowoman in Del. > > Steve Sanford > tanager@bcpl.net > Randallstown MD > Baltimore County > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================