[MDOsprey] SANDWICH TERN and Black Terns at Havre de Grace

rick (rblom@blazie.com)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:45:42 -0500


        On Tuesday evening, August 10, Richard Hagenston, Lisa (unsure of
last name) and I checked the flats at Havre de Grace. Among the highlights
were:

Double-crested Cormorant        16
Killdeer                        30
Semipalmated Plover             4
Least Sandpiper                 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper          6
Pectoral Sandpiper              1
peep sp.                        100
Spotted Sandpiper               3
Laughing Gull                   8 (among 500+ gulls)
Caspian Tern                    55
Forster's Tern                  100
Common Tern                     3
SANDWICH TERN                   1
BLACK TERN                      2

        The Sandwich Tern was present for about 15 minutes just as the flat
was disappearing. It was a winter plumaged adult. The Black Terns were
present at about the same time but were still there as it became too dark
to see. This is, I think, the first record of Sandwich Tern for Harford
County, and the first Black Terns this year.

Rick

"Whenever nature creates something that cannot possibly be confused with
something else, it immediately creates something very like it; if nature
abhors a vacuum, it simply loathes and detests an unmistakable species."
-- Miles Kington


Rick Blom
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Belcamp, Maryland 21017
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