Brown Pelican & Gulls, Dorchester Co., 1/9
Dma3@aol.com
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:22:26 EST
At sunset on Saturday, Jan. 9, approx. 2,000 large gulls and one Brown Pelican
were flying or settling for the night in Cambridge, MD on the Choptank River
over "Jone's Boat House" and sand-spit which is off the point where Hambrooks
Blvd. makes its first dead end turn to the left. The gulls and pelican could
also be seen from Great Marsh, off Talbot and/or Somerset Avenues at the
river, looking toward "Jone's Boat House". The large numbers of gulls may
only mass in the early morning and toward sunset, after feeding at area
landfills. We were not there at midday or in the afternoon, but only arrived
after 4pm.
At Oakley St. and the river, the usual large numbers of Canvasbacks, several
Redheads, Greater Scaup and Wigeon were present.
Mary Ann Todd
Dave Czaplak