Hi Everybody,

Ian missed the school bus this morning so Nancy and I took him to school 
in Chestertown. On the way home, after a couple of other errands, we 
stopped at Great Oak Pd. We were there from 9:45 to 10:45 AM, and we 
arrived just in time to have a modest flock of 450 Snow Geese arrive and 
settle in. The local Bald Eagles (4 young ones) and one small aircraft 
kept the Snows agitated, but the manageable flock size allowed for some 
good scanning. Our best find was an adult ROSS'S GOOSE, also present 
were two very likely SNOWXROSS'S hybrids, and 12 "Blue" Geese. Other 
birds at the pond were 800+ Canada Geese, 150 Ruddy Ducks, 12 
Ring-necked Ducks, 38 Green-winged Teal, 1 Northern Shoveler, the drake 
Canvasback (still present), 6 Bonaparte's Gulls, and a Double-crested 
Cormorant (oddly, our first at Great Oak Pd). In the fields around the 
pond were 11 Killdeer, and American Pipit (at least one flying over). On 
a pond near the corner of Handy Pt. and Fish Hatchery Roads was a late 
Great Egret.

Good birding,

Walter Ellison & Nancy Martin

23460 Clarissa Rd
Chestertown, MD 21620

phone: 410-778-9568

e-mail: rossgull(AT)baybroadband.net

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