Jim-
What an incredible group of Chuck-wills-widows and Whips!
Is Truits landing a public area? If so can you give me directions to
Truits landing from
Salisbury? thanks and good birding!!
Taylor McLean
Towson, MD
Balto. Co.
----- Original Message -----
From: "jim brighton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Chasing Goatsuckers on the lower shore 4/30--5/1
> Friday night I left Oxford with the plan of hitting Caroline,
Wicomico,
> Worcester, and Somerset Counties listening for Chuck-wills-widow and
> Whip-poor-wills. Caroline Co. had 21 Whip-poor-wills from Federalsburg
to
> north of Smithville Lake/Line Rd. I heard no Chuck's from Tanyard down to
> Choptank.
> South of Sharptown in Wicomico Co. I had 2 Whip's calling. On old Rt. 50
> marsh accsess I had one Chuck calling. I then drove to Truitt's Landing
in
> Worcester Co. There were so many Chuck's calling it was hard to count
how
> many. It was a cacophany of Chuck's like I had never heard. Probably
> close to 25-30 birds. On Ward Rd. in Wor. Co. I had a single Whip. It
was
> 2:45 am when I turned off of Rt. 13 towards Deal Island. About 5 miles
west
> of Rt. 13 I had a single Chuck call. I decided to go down toward the
> Pocomoke to get Whip's but when I got down there everything had gone
quiet.
> It wasn't until around 5:00 am that I finally heard a single Whip calling
on
> Peach Orchard Rd. It was a great night for Goatsuckers. Also had a
Falcate
> Orange-tip and Henry's Elfin's around Old Furnace Town later on toward
noon.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfeeŽ
> Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
>
> =======================================================================
> To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to
> with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey
> =======================================================================
=======================================================================
To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to
with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey
======================================================================= |