[MDOsprey] Another OC report
Don Burggraf (dburggraf@hotmail.com)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:33:05 PST
Sunday evening, Monday, and Tuesday, I attended a church meeting in Ocean
City, MD. I took along Binoculars and a scope, in order to sandwich in short
birding trips during free time (like before and during sunrise, and later
afternoon through sunset). Highlights
from forays:
Ocean City Inlet
common gulls (RBGU, HERG, GBBG, LAGU. BOGU also seen by other birders)
3 harlequin ducks
20+ Forster's terns
2 brant
10 black scoters
1 surf scoter
20+ ruddy turnstones
1 purple sandpiper
West Ocean City Pond
Amercian coot
American wigeon
gadwall
American pintail
tundra swan
green-winged teal
redheads
canvasback
lesser scaup
mallard
American black duck
bufflehead
ruddy duck
(no sign of a Eurasian Wigeon)
Assateague
yellow-rumped warblers (everywhere!)
chipping sparrow - 1 (making up its mind to go South?)
gray catbird - 1 (ditto?)
white-throated sparrow - 1
surf scoter (close flyby's)
northern gannet (ditto)
loons (mostly distant flyby's, with one obviously a red-throated)
sanderlings
eastern towhee
snow geese (in a "v" with one blue morph and one tundra swan)
great horned owl (two magnificent silhouettes at sunset)
short-eared owl (moth-like flight at sunset)
Cambridge (on my trip home)
Oldsquaw - 6
Easton
Sandhill Crane (still present this afternoon)
Golden Eagle (which spooked the Canada geese at the crane pond -- the crane
didn't seem to be bothered. A group from Northern Virginia arrived to find
the crane. When the geese went up, one quick-thinking birder from this
group looked around for the cause, and was able to point the eagle out to
the rest of us.
Canada Goose (including quite a few smaller individuals - hutchinsonii?)
Oh, yes. My meeting also turned out to be very good.
Don Burggraf
Baltimore
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