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Sooty Shearwater, Assateague Island 5/12

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Clive Harris

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Clive Harris

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Sun, 13 May 2007 14:44:26 -0700

Spent the weekend on a neighborhood campout at Assateague Island State Park.  I spent a little time birding.  Highlight was a Sooty Shearwater seen Saturday afternoon from the beach at loop F heading south 200 yds off the beach. A short seawatch this morning produced a distant jaeger also heading south.  Nice numbers of Least Tern (c10 at one time) and 2 1st year Lesser Black-backs were the only other notables.
   
  Virtually no landbird migrants around though breeders in decent numbers.  On a short walk through the woods on Saturday morning I flushed a pair of Great Horned Owl and a Chuck Will's-widow.
   
  Regards
   
  Clive Harris
  Cabin John, MD