After waking at the terribly early hour of 10:30am this morning (due to a
punch bowl labeled 'Fountain of Youth' and a girl who insisted on being
called Rainbow) I made my way to the ocean looking for year birds. I
thought everything was alright but by the time I got to Salisbury I started
questioning my strong devotion to this passtime we call 'birding'. My body
deteriorated slowly throughout the day. While checking out the woods at
94th St. OC there must have been a slip in the Space Time Continuum and I
realized like Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, it was time to die. I decided
to make the Wawa in West OC my final resting place, but it was not to be.
After laying down in the driver's seat a SUV pulled up alongside me.
Everybody jumped out of the SUV completely naked and streaked through the
parking lot running a complete loop around the gas pumps. They then jumped
back into their SUV and sped off. I decided that Wawa wasn't an appropriate
place to breath my last breath and made the trip home back to Easton.
West OC Ponds
Canvasbacks
Hooded Mergs
Gadwalls
Pintail
Flats -- veiwed from Hooper's
Brant
Dunlin
Red-breasted Merg's
Harrier
Inlet
Common Eiders (2 veiwed on other side of jetty female/imm.)
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
Common Loons
Red-throated Loons
Gannet -- (1)
Purple Sandpipers
Ruddy Turnstones
Oystercathers
Berlin Sewage Ponds
Green-winged Teal (many)
Black Ducks
Shovelers
Ring-necked Ducks
Lesser Scaup (2 females)
Savannah Sparrow
Assateague Bay side
Bufflehead (thousands)
Horned Grebes
94th Street Woods
Catbird (1)
Robins (a large flock 50?)
Whitethroats
Song Sparrows
Carolina Chickadees
Jim Brighton
Easton, MD
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