Hi All,

This Sunday the Kentish Plovers will be sitting at the open viewing platform (not the fancy new blind) at the west end of the Tubby Cove Trail at Eastern Neck NWR south of Rock Hall. We are betting that the willow oaks and lobololly pines near the platform will add to our songbird tally as we hope to keep our waterbird and raptor diversity at the same levels we saw to the north at the Eastern Neck Narrows parking lot in our three other Big Sits. Come help us as we attempt to better our previous best of 62 species. Last year we were treated to an early immature goshawk passing overhead and we dipped on an American Bittern seen from the Tubby Cove platform (could have something to do with switching locations). Please come to visit, or sit a spell, and keep us on-task as new bird species diminish into the afternoon. 

Good Birding,

Walter Ellison

23460 Clarissa Road
Chestertown, MD 21620
phone: 410-778-9568
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"A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. White (in "Stuart Little")

"Are there *ever* enough birds?" - Connie Hagar as quoted by Edwin Way Teale in "Wandering through Winter"