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Ocean City plus

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sean mccandless

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:53:30 -0500

Hello everyone. Just a brief update for you. I went to Ocean City 
and a few other stops today to scout out what the New year may bring 
and was pretty happy,I am ready to start over again.
At the Inlet there were all three Scoters, both Loons, a Great Cormorant,
2 KING EIDERS, Long-tailed Ducks, Purple Sandpipers, Turnstones, Sanderlings,
many Bonaparte's gulls, 2 Forsters Terns, and then it started to snow.
It was a white out for a couple of hours.

At Assateuge Island,I didn't really have much other than allot of Black Ducks, lots of
Myrtle Warblers, Towhee, a hundred or so Brant and Buffleheads. The visibility was 
real bad.

Elliot Island Road was clear of snow and other than a few flakes was kind of slow.
Again Many Black Ducks, some Tundra Swans, a couple of Harriers, 4 Bald Eagles,
Both Yellow Legs, 3 Snipe, lots of Song, Swamp and Savannah Sparrows, about 12 Brown-headed
Nuthatches, Golden Cr. Kinglets and No Owls at the time I was there.

Happy Birding and Happy New Year.
Sean McCandless