Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:31:49 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Frederick W. Fallon" Subject: Shore sightings Mon and Tue MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Our 2-day sojourn on the Eastern Shore netted some of the recently-discussed finds - on the 16th 2 Razorbills at the O.C. inlet (outside the jetty), with imm male and 2 female Common Eiders, and numerous Boney Gulls, and the Eurasian Widgeon on the Eagle Nest Golf Course pond - in the company of an otherwise monotypic flock of 80 "regular" widgeons. At Indian River inlet, Black and Surf Scoters but no White-winged, nor any cormorants nor alcids, but 20 Purple Sandpipers. On the 17th, a Great Cormorant was seen near the breakwater at Cape Henlopen (and really, unusually few Double-crested), while a Red-breasted Nuthatch found company among the Brown-headeds near the radar tower. A close inspection of the 64 Green-winged Teal in the impoundment along Broadkill Rd failed to turn up any of the "European" form as reported earlier by Bruce Peterjohn. So it was with some pessimism I searched among 1000 Canada Geese for the White-fronted Goose likewise reported by him. But the very last goose - last because farthest away and standing in a depression from which his head rose only occasionally - proved to be indeed a White-fronted, and I think of the Tundra race because of the relatively light color of the head. Please excuse this excursion into D**re; after all we did start out in MD. Fred and Jane Fallon Bowie MD fwfallon@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================