[MDOsprey] Easton Waste Water TP - 27 Aug visit

Leslie Roslund (Lroslund@bluecrab.org)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:28:22 -0400


Ospreyers -
	A mid-afternoon visit to Easton Waste Water TP today found the lower pond
pretty well overgrown with grass, and holding water too deep for most of
the shore birds.  Highlights of birding were:

	Bobolinks - still there in great numbers (100 to 200) now in winter
plumage
	Shovelers - 4
	Blue-winged Teal - 40 (totally hidden in the tall grass of the pond until
they flushed)
	Eastern Meadowlark - 2
	Great Egret - 1
	Least Sandpiper - 3

	Sedge Wren - 2 (heard but not seen)
	   ( Three or more of these have been mostly heard, and occasionally seen
for the past three weeks in one of the sections of tall grass.  For much of
that time the birds were sufficiently secretive to defy correct
identification.  Earlier this week, several birders with patience,
persistence and strong scopes managed to attain the correct identification
when one of the birds finally cooperated enough to take position atop a
bush and vocalize with reckless abandon.)

Les Roslund
Lroslund@bluecrab.org
Easton, MD