Hi all, 
Nancy and I came down Friday eve and are staying at the Lighthouse at  Fagars 
Island through Sunday. Saturday I planted myself at the inlet at just  before 
9 Am to look for the razorbill, etc. reported earlier in  the week.  Almost 
the first bird I scoped was indeed the Razorbill, on the far side of the  inlet 
(north side of south jetty) sitting atop the water and being carried out  by 
the moving tide. Great but short looks before it disappeared entirely. I  
spent a very cold hour there trying to relocate it or anything else of interest,  
finding Surf and Black Scoters, both loons, Greater Scaup (a pair), a single  
female Long-tailed Duck, about 1/2 dozen A. Oystercatchers, Purple Sands and  
Ruddy Turnstones, and the local Peregrine Falcon standing on the beach about 
1/2  way to the pier, eating a gull.
 
 The West OC pond had lots of shovelers and Canvasbacks (and a pair of  
Redheads which I didn't see/find, fide Jane Coskren), Hooded Mergs, etc. but no  
Iceland Gull as Walter had on Thursday. The pond on the golf course across from  
the Humane Soc.still had  a male Eurasian Wigeon in the company of a female  
(and many other A. Wigeon). Tide was considerably high when we got to the 4th  
Street flats and so we didn't see much there. Went back to the inlet around 1 
PM  or so and I got 2 more brief looks at the Razorbill, which by then was 
feeding  at the mouth of the inlet near a small group of Red-throated Loons and 
a large  raft of scoters. Other birders had finally showed up by then, so 
Nancy and I  headed off towards DE to do some shopping and get some coffee.
 
Happy Presidents Day,
Rick Sussman 
Ashton,MD