Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:21:15 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: FW: Lake Anna birds Comments: To: VA-BIRD@freelists.org Comments: cc: georgearmistead@hotmail.com, SRottenborn@wetlandstudies.com, Richard.Erickson@lsa-assoc.comm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, The below message was sent to me by Steve Rottenborn and I am forwarding it to VA-BIRD at his request. Sounds like Steve had an excellent storm-chasing session! Best, Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com From: Steve Rottenborn Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:06 PM To: 'Susan Heath'; 'BlkVulture@aol.com'; 'Phoebetria@aol.com'; 'cms@hovac.com'; 'KurtCapt87@aol.com' Subject: Lake Anna birds I can't post to VA-BIRD from my computer here at work, and may not have power back up at home for a while, so could one of you please forward this to VA-BIRD? Thanks a lot. This morning (19 Sep.) I scoped Lake Anna from the east side of the Rt. 208 bridge from 6:15 to 7:15, and again from 8:10 until 9:40 (I spent the intervening period trying in vain to get near the southeastern part of the lake, but was blocked by fallen trees). No tubenoses, no Sooty Terns, but no complaints from me. The list follows: 1 Willet 1 Red-necked Phalarope 2 juv. Parasitic Jaegers (1 present for at least 50 minutes, chasing terns and being chased by a Bald Eagle) 130 Laughing Gulls 13 Ring-billed Gulls 4 Herring Gulls 4 Great Black-backed Gulls 1 juv. Sabine's Gull (visible for 15 minutes -- flew around a lot, and sat on the water for 5 minutes) 5 Caspian Terns 52 Royal Terns 11 Forster's Terns 275 Common Terns 1 Arctic Tern (apparently second-summer plumage -- great views for about 4 minutes, with Common Terns) 1 juv. Least Tern 5 Black Terns 2 ad. Black Skimmers All the birds were flying southeastward, eventually crossing over Rt. 208 at the bridge (not crossing over the causeway). Good birding, Steve Rottenborn Culpeper County, Virginia rotten.born@verizon.net / srottenborn@wetlandstudies.com *********************** Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com Costa Mesa, CA ************************ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================