Hi all,
Well, I did it again, leaving early before dawn
like i did chasing Gray Kingbird, N. Lapwing earlier
this year.... After seeing the owl just before
sunrise, I made a quick birding along the road and to
the boat dock and back.
Very busy birding as sun rise. On my return trip,
the owl wasn't on the pole or anywhere else. Did not
see it flying or perch on nearby trees or poles along
the road on my way home.
6am-720am - 12/20/05
Fishing Bay Wildlife Management Area "Elliot Island"
Elliot Island Rd., from Henry's Cross Rd S., Elliot,
Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: PC/Fair, 27 degree, NW 14 mph- WNW 8 mph
308 Canada Goose - many leaving for nearby fields
4 Mute Swan
32 American Black Duck
24 Green-winged Teal
17 Surf Scoter
1 White-winged Scoter
58 Bufflehead
2228 Ruddy Duck
1 Common Loon
5 Great Blue Heron
1 Great Egret
4 Bald Eagle
10 Northern Harrier
1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK - dark morph
1 American Kestrel
5 Greater Yellowleg
16 Dunlin
1049 Ring-billed Gull - leaving roost
115 Herring Gull - leaving roost
8 Great Black-backed Gull - Wharf Rd dock
43 Mourning Dove - on wires
2 GREAT HORNED OWL
1 SNOWY OWL - imm female
4 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
8 Northern Flicker
113 Fish Crow
11 Carolina Chickadee
1 SEDGE WREN
2 Marsh Wren
6 Golden-crowned Kinglet
3 Northern Mockingbird
88 European Starling - leaving roost
66 Yellow-rumped Warbler
10 Savannah Sparrow
1 Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
19 White-throated Sparrow - Henry's Crossroad
22 "Slate-colored" Junco - Henry's Crossroad
6 Northern Cardinal
4447 Red-winged Blackbird - (several small flocks
2 Eastern Meadowlark leaving roost)
8 Boat-tailed Grackle
8758 44 species
Mammals
7 Eastern Cottontail
20 White-tailed Deer
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
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