[MDOsprey] Floyd Birds
Kyle Rambo (kyle_rambo@yahoo.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
Spent a couple hours (1000-1230) so far out in the vicinity of Cedar
Point on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in St. Mary's County.
4-6 foot waves are rolling in from the northeast, but the strong winds
and heavy rain seem to be blowing in from the northwest!
Bird activity is generally light, with local flights of the usual
suspects -- mostly into creeks and sheltered water bodies.
One Semipalmated Sandpiper, in the company of gulls on the golf course
driving range, is clutching the grass with all his might trying not to
get blown away.
Only unusual birds so far have been a flock of 7 Red-necked Phalaropes
at 1050, 3 Tree Swallows at 1057, and a single adult Sandwich Tern at
1102. All birds were flying north into the wind. Birds seem to be
much less active as the storm worsens.
I'm heading back out now. Hope I don't get blown away.
Kyle Rambo
Natural Resources Manager
Naval Air Station, Bldg. 1410
22541 Johnson Road, NASPW
Patuxent River, MD 20670-1700
301-342-3670 or 301-757-1888 W
301-373-5057 H
ramboke@navair.navy.mil
kyle_rambo@yahoo.com
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