This is a cut and paste job from the DE listserv. It talks of a Frigatebird 
seen flying south from Cape May into DE Waters. I would think it is due in 
MD waters very soon. Anyone on the coast up for a late afternoon seawatch?  

Thanks to Liz DuMont for alerting me to this... 

Here's a fwd from NJ RBA's...if anyone can get down to the coast  before 
dark, do it! 

Best, 

Jeff 

Jeffrey Gordon 
Lewes, DE 

 


Subject: frigatebird passing Cape May 
From: "Paul E. Lehman" <lehman.paul AT VERIZON.NET> 
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:34:39 -0500 

NJBIRDS: 

An adult female frigatebird--undoubtedly yesterday's bird from Barnegat 
Light--was refound in Cape May today by visiting upstate NY birders Bob 
Boehm and Kate Beale as it circled around for 10 minutes over the 
Concrete Ship/Sunset Beach. They then went to find other birders and the 
bird was refound circling around off Cape May Pt, seen from the 
hawkwatch platform. Then it slowly drifted south and then southwest 
toward Lewes, Delaware. In all it was in view for some 30 minutes or so 
and was seen by about 25 people (happily, including myself). Presumably 
it has now departed the state for good..... 

Some 3-5 Cave Swallows (plus 5+ Barns and 2-3 Rough-wingeds) have been 
seen today from the hawkwatch platform. A cooperative Clay-colored 
Sparrow is also at the State Park. 

A Greater White-fronted Goose was somewhere near Princeton  yesterday..... 

The New Brunswick Rufous/Allen's Hummer is gone. 

--Paul Lehman