[MDOsprey] No Yellow B'Loon (11/7)

Gregory B Miller (gregorym@erols.com)
Sun, 07 Nov 1999 14:23:07 -0500


No Yellow-billed Loon today as of 12:30pm.  I checked near Greenwell
from 8:30-8:45am and arrived at the Sea Breeze a little before 9am.  A
Colorado birder was just leaving.  He got the Kelp Gull, but no YBLO. 
He said another birder before him was also unsuccessful.

We had 6-8 birders scanning the river intermitingly until I left at
12:30pm.  The cold North wind and choppy water made for less-than-decent
viewing conditions, too.  I tallied 38 Common Loons this morning (but
there were probably many more).  No Red-throateds today and no imm.
Common with the yellow bill.  Buffleheads, Com Goldeneyes, and Ruddy
Ducks were present, as well as one Horned Grebe and a single Oldsquaw
(this was my first one this Fall).  Several adult flyby Bald Eagles were
a delight to all.  

We had 2 Ospreys, too--one bird and one airplane.  Forster's Terns are
still quite common on the river.  Six gull species were observed this
morning, too: Great Black-back, Herring, Ring-billed, Laughing,
Bonaparte's, and the ring-master, Kelp Gull (sitting on its favorite
post--right side of the east pier, 5th post from the end).  "Shrimpy"
was, of course, posing for the cameras (as always) and was absent only
briefly this morning from 9-9:30am.
-- 
Greg Miller
Hollywood, Maryland, USA
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