MD/DE/VA coast this past weekend

Emily Joyce (ejoyce@toad.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:37:13 -0800


Waterfowl were about in great abundance.  Highlights included 
harlequin duck and common eider at OC, a pair of wood ducks that
seemed bonded to a mallard and followed him everywhere at the 
first Griffin Road pond, shovelers doing group fishing by swimming
in a circle and stirring things up, boodles of canvasbacks
and lots (relatively speaking) of redheads at Silver Lake in Rehobeth,
all three scoters, both loons, etc.  We also had the best (and longest)
look I've ever had of a short-eared owl (Port Mahon Road).  A very
nice trip, with 91 species total without too much early morning
exertion.  :)

Emily Joyce