[MDOsprey] Black Walnut Point (Tilghman Is) Friday A.M.

Leslie Roslund (Lroslund@bluecrab.org)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:02:00 -0400


	Checking the Chesapeake Bay from the vantage points of the Bay Hundred
region gave the following: (started at Blk Walnut at 0900)

Black Walnut Point
	Common Tern 	5
	Forster's Tern	8
	DC Cormorant	4
	and the normal gulls
	Gt Blue Heron	21 (fishing on leeward side of end of the island)
	Osprey		4
	Great Egret	1

Tilghman Park
	Forster's Tern	12
	and the normal gulls, including 20 Gt Black Backs

Lowe's Wharf
	Forster's Tern	2
	Bald Eagle 	2 (1 adult, 1 1st yr)

Claiborne Pier
	Forster's Tern	17
	Royal Tern	  3
	Mute Swan	over 100

and at my house - Tunis Mills- 
	RT Hummingbird 	1 - (came in after the storm yesterday; my others had
disappeared after 9/7; this one is still around here this morning, drinking
like mad - a juvenile)
	Immature Osprey - Mine is still being fed by the male - went without food
yesterday, but the male brought food a few minutes ago.  Four other osprey
seen in the area this morning.	

Les Roslund
Easton, MD