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OC Inlet

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"Hoffman, Mark"

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Hoffman, Mark

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Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:00:47 -0400

We'd been planning to come down to Worcester for the holiday weekend, things were delayed a little due to the weather (and perhaps we should have made a detour through Mont Co, as Sooty Tern is my "3rd most wanted" MD species), but nonetheless I birded the OC Inlet from 5 pm till 7:05 pm.  The ocean was very rough, but visability was good. No rare terns. 

Highlight was a relativity close Parasitic Jaeger head north (like the other two jaeger (sp.)s), just over the end of the north jetty.  A number of scattered terns, but no apparent movement in one direction or the other.  There was a very large tern flock on the north end of Assateague.
 
Totals
Common Tern 250
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 60
Sandwich Tern 2
Caspian Tern 40
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Jaeger (sp.) 2
Nothern Gannet 1 (subad) headed N
Herring Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 50
Laughing Gull 30
Great Black-backed Gull 20

Mark Hoffman
Sykesville, MD