Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:57:52 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Marcia E. Balestri" Subject: Re: E Shore Weekend In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Oops, sorry for the apostrophe -- should be wigeons. I had turkeys on Thursday, real live wild ones in my yard. Guess they knew they would be safe at my house -- not a turkey eater! -- Marcia E. Balestri Frederick, MD > From: "Marcia E. Balestri" > Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:30:44 -0500 > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] E Shore Weekend > > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================