Date:         Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:19:32 -0500
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From:         Benjamin Poscover <bposcove@BCPL.NET>
Subject:      Eastern Shore Trip
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    Ruth and I just got back from a visit to the Eastern Shore.  The =
weather was foggy, drizzly, and very warm.  I wore my December birding =
clothes and about had a heat stroke.=20
    We came south from Elkton and home through Ocean City via 50.  The =
most abundant birds were Snow Geese, Canada Geese, Green-winged Teal, =
and Mallards.  We saw no ducks on bay side in waters on Route 50 in =
Delaware.  Highlights at our stops were:

Bombay Hook: =20
=3D=3DGreen-winged teal
=3D=3DWatching a Harrier work very close to us=20
=3D=3DTundra Swans
=3D=3DYellowlegs
=3D=3DDunlin
=3D=3DMany Pintails
=3D=3DSeeing Snow Geese barely visible through the fog--very abstract.
=3D=3DHearing a Ringed-neck Pheasant

Broadkill Beach:
=3D=3DMany, many Green-winged Teal
=3D=3DFlight after flight of Snow Geese flying overhead

Crystal Lake:
=3D=3DMany birds
=3D=3DCanvas Backs
=3D=3DRuddys
=3D=3DDouble Crested Cormorants

Indian River Inlet:
=3D=3DGreat Cormorant
=3D=3DRed-throated Loons
=3D=3DCommon Loons
=3D=3DOld Squaw (I just can't make myself say that other name)

Driving South on 50:
=3D=3DGreat Egret in median strip

At 4th Street in OC:
=3D=3DBrant
=3D=3DOyster Catchers
=3D=3DOne lone Turkey Vulture walking on island
=3D=3DRed-breasted Mergansers

OC Jetty:
=3D=3DPurple Sandpipers
=3D=3DRuddy Turnstones
=3D=3DSerf Scoters (there may have been other species but with the haze, =
high tide,
    and distance I couldn't identify any)

At Hooper's:
=3D=3DBlack-crowned Night Heron flying by

West OC Pond:
=3D=3DMany ducks
=3D=3DSeveral Great Blue Herons
=3D=3DHooded Merganser

Approaching Trappe:
=3D=3DTen Black Vultures on ground

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge:
=3D=3DIt was very foggy and we didn't stop.  Have planned a trip there =
with my son on         Dec. 26.

Ben and Ruth Poscover
Towson MD
bposcove@bcpl.net




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