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Oak Grove Update 3/9

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"Lovelace Glen (DelDOT)"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:46:43 -0500

Hello All,
	The past 2 weekends have been particularly slow.  The only highlights have been 3 White Breasted Nuts at the feeder simultaneously on 2/27 and 1000 Ring-billed Gulls (likely a local high count) in area fields on 3/6.  The gulls on the ground were homogeneous Ringers.  Only a single flyby Herring broke the monotony.  Daily totals were a paltry 33 species on 2/27 and even more meager 29 species on 3/6 (with misses of Mockingbird, Song Sp, Blue Jay, Downy WP, etc due to the strong winds).
	However, Jeff's post reminded me that things improved on the warm evening of 3/7.  I spent 6-6:30 PM overlooking the re-growth woods that joins the back of the farm.  First I enjoyed a Red Fox that approached closely before noticing me.  A bit later, the same or another fox came by repeatedly making a nasal yelp, not really sharp enough to call a bark.  Birds included Song Sp., a calling Towhee, flyby Canada Geese, GB Heron and 2 duck sp., but too dark to ID :(.  And now for the real highlights - a covey of Bobwhite that was possibly flushed by the second fox and a peenting Woodcock.  I was just about to leave when it started calling.  It sounded like it was moving, but was much too dark by that point to pick it out of the dusk sky.
	Also, on 3/7, Shelly had a single Tree Swallow on Owls Nest Rd near Seaford.

Good Birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE