Hi Everybody,
On our way home from Nancy's Partners for Success Back to School Family Picnic at Tuckahoe State Park (birding was a bit slow there, but I had my first Ruby-crowned Kinglet of the season) we stopped to check Great Oak Pond. Waterfowl have increased greatly at the pond, but the star was a basic plumaged male AMERICAN AVOCET that stalked among the geese on the far shore.
Other birds at Great Oak Pond:
1200+ Canada Geese
5 Snow Geese (two blues)
175 Green-winged Teal
4 Northern Pintail
53 Mallards
34 Northern Shovelers
3 Blue-winged Teal
1 Ruddy Duck
1 Killdeer
8 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Spotted Sandpiper
8 Pectoral Sandipers
2 Wilson's Snipe
On our return home we found our first Brown Creeper for the autumn in the yard.
Good Birding,
Walter Ellison
23460 Clarissa Road
Chestertown, MD 21620
phone: 410-778-9568
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