Zach was having trouble posting to MDOsprey so he asked me to post this for him. 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: 
To: 
Sent: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 6:01 PM
Subject: Eastern shore trip


Yesterday 12/9 I birded in Worchester and Somerset County. Weather was cold and because of that most of the freshwater was frozen. Lots of the ducks were sitting on ice all day long and some even trying to land on it, quite funny to watch. 
 
OC inlet: 
1 Long-Billed Dowitcher being chased by a harrier off of the inlet what a sight! 
~20 Bonies 
~5 forester's terns 
 
West OC pond: mostly frozen 
Gadwall 
Shoveler 
Green-winged teal 
~10 canvasback 
 
Eagles Nest Golf Course: 
~200 american widegon 
1 Eurasian Widegon 
 
Eagle's Nest Campground: 
Western Willet 
Loads of Black-bellied Plovers 
Forester's tern 
 
Evan's Rd: 
2 White-crowns 
1 house wren 
2 thrashers 
 
North Vaughn: 
1 Clay-colored Sparrow 
1 Fox Sparrow 
1 Hermit Thrush 
Brown-headed Nuthatch 
 
Follow Ditch Rd. 
1 merlin 
1 white-crown 
 
Deal Island: 
1 Orange-Crowned Warbler 
6 Pied billed grebes- One flew onto the ice and was hilarious to watch it flop around 
1 sedge wren 
1 marsh wren 
good numbers of Black-crowned night herons 
~5 tricolored herons 
~20 Great Egrets 
1 merlin 
 
It was a great day and felt really good to be back in MD birding, sad though that it wasn't the day after an awesome pelagic trip. But oh well. 
 
Good birding 
 
Zachary Baer 
Centreville, MD 
 
_________________________________________________________________ 
All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000002msn/direct/01/?href=http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail 
 
________________________________________________________________________
Check out the new AOL.  Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.