Hi All,

Nancy got home from her new job about 3:45 this afternoon and asked if I wanted to take a break to check out some eagles she had spotted along Flatland Road. I obliged and we headed out, soon locating two immature Bald Eagles feeding on a Snow Goose carcass - there had been three brown birds and an adult Bald when she first passed by without binoculars. We then took a circuitous route toward Worton to pick up Ian from his afterschool program.

Along Mary Morris Road, we spotted an apparent Red-tailed Hawk nest that will bear checking for occupancy later in the season, a pair of Red-tails farther along, and 3 American Wigeon and 13 Green-winged Teal with geese on the pond close to Route 297screened by the autumn olive hedge. Along 297 there was a handsome adult male Cooper's Hawk, and a Killdeer among the gulls at the pond across from the Velsicol plant. Detouring through Chinquapin Rd, past the Worton Wastewater Treatment Plant, we stopped to check the Canada Goose flock grazing on the west bank of the impoundments. Before long, I spotted an adult GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE at the top of the bank, showing off its orange feet and bold black belly stripes along with an orangy bill and white 'front'. 

After picking up Ian at school, we had one more nice bird along Route 298 south of Butlertown - an adult male PEREGRINE FALCON perched in a large snag - perhaps the same bird we had seen a few times late last fall near Great Oak Pond, about 3.5 miles away as the falcon flies. Not a bad hour's birding - it's nice to have some spring migrants returning and bird activity picking up.

Good Birding,

Walter 

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