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Avocet at Great Oak Pd. 24 Sept

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Walter Ellison

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Walter Ellison

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Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:21:50 -0400

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
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