Lights by the Bay during the day & Eastern Neck Nov 28, 1998

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Spent this very beautiful day looking for birds in Maryland.  The Howard
County MOS trip to Sandy Point State Park turned up three Snow Buntings
(three years in a row ... yea!)  Just thirty species found in the park.
Waterfowl was mostly Buffleheads, a Gadwall, Black Duck and Mallards. Gulls
found were Ring-billed, Herring, Laughing and Greater Black-backed, a
Golden-crowned Kinglet, not much else.

Left there to head for Eastern Neck in the afternoon where we had great
views of the Cinnamon teal pair west of the bridge at the park entrance. The
male was stunning (thanks Marshall for the note).  Also saw hundereds of
Northern Pintail and Tundra Swans there along with American Wigeon and some
Bonaparte's Gulls.  On the way back we saw a Purple Finch just north of the
refuge.

Good Birding,

Darius Ecker (dariuse@abs.net)

Columbia, Maryland USA

"You almost never find what you set out to see, but you can always
 find something amazing."

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