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Re: Bonapartes at Back River and a chippie

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Don Burggraf

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Don Burggraf

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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:04:48 +0000

Hi all

I went Monday to Back River to the Royal Farms lot and the undeveloped field 
next to Diamond Point Road, with no surprises - well over 100 Bonaparte's 
Gulls, 5 Caspian Terns, Herring, Ring-billed, and Great Black-backed Gulls, 
and a yellowlegs too far away to identify (no Little Gulls made themselves 
obvious alas).

Similar birds (albeit smaller numbers) at Cox Point Park (first Osprey of 
the day) and North Point Park. (Both Scaups, Pine Warbler and Bald Eagles 
added to the list. Also, I saw a bird on the light house that I feel 
confident calling a Peregrine.)

The most interesting bird of the day popped up when I got home and looked at 
my feeder. I had a Chipping Sparrow at the black sunflowers. This is my 
first observation of a Chipping Sparrow at a feeder let alone at my feeder. 
Maybe I have just been living a sheltered life. Do others have Chippies at 
their feeders?

Don Burggraf
Baltimore


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