Sunday on the Susquehanna

Les Eastman (les_eastman@netfox.net)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:37:41 -0500


Sunday, November 23, 1997

Birds seen at the Havre de Grace Marina at the south end of Union
Avenue:
Canada Geese - about 12
Mallard - about 75
Canvasback - 2
Bufflehead - 8
Ruddy Duck - 4
American Coot -about 50
Ring-billed Gull - about 100
Great Black-backed Gull - about 10
Laughing Gull - 1
Forster's Tern - about 6
Pine Siskin - 3

Birds seen at Conowingo Dam:
Double-crested Cormorant - about 12
Black Duck - about 12
Mallard - about 12
Bufflehead - 4
Common Goldeneye - 2
Hooded Merganser - 20
Bald Eagle - 30 - (3 adult - the numbers are starting to increase
rapidly)
Black Vulture - about 20
Turkey Vulture - about 10
Peregrine Falcon - 1 immature (first seen the previous weekend)
No unusual gulls were found
Great Blue Heron - about 50

Birds seen on Conowingo Lake at and north of Conowingo Creek:
Common Loon - about 6
Red-throated Loon - 1
(The Pacific Loon was found later in the day in PA. We didn't see it.)
Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 4
Bonaparte's Gull - about 100
Bald Eagle - 2 adult

And probably some more stuff I can't remember right now.

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Les Eastman
les_eastman@netfox.net
Havre de Grace, MD