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Worcester and Somerset County 2/28/08

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Helen Patton

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Helen Patton

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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:25 -0500

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Jim Green and I birded in Worcester and Somerset County on Sunday in
intermittent rain and wind.
WORCESTER Co, Truitts Landing in driving rain
1000's of Snow Geese

SOMERSET COUNTY
Vessey Orchard Road
1 Merlin
3 Horned Lark

Pocomoke Sound WMA Area
Rehoboth
10 Red-breasted Mergansers
1 Hairy Woodpecker

Back Shelltown Road including dirt road that leads to parking lot
Two small flocks of Brown-headed Nuthatch
1 Winter Wren
2 Pine Warblers

Rumbly Point Road
2 Hooded Mergansers
10 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Brown-headed Nuthatch

L Q Powell Road
15 Eastern Meadowlark

Chrisfield
8 Common Loons
1 Horned Grebe
2 Northern Gannett
6 Surf Scoters

Jane's Island SP entry road
4 or 5 Brown-headed Nuthatch
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Fox Sparrow

Deal Island Game Preserve Road
5 Hooded Merganser
15 American Wigeon
2 Gadwall
30+ Tundra Swan
1 Pied-billed Grebe
What at first looked like Great Egrets became 4 immature LITTLE BLUE
HERONS (bi-colored bills, dull green legs) on closer inspection.  A
TRICOLORED HERON accompanied them.
1 Pied-billed Grebe

Riley Roberts Road
8 Hooded Mergansers
120+ American Wigeon
6 Northern Pintail
1 Short-eared Owl
2 TRICOLORED HERON
21 Dunlin
1 Boat-tailed Grackle

The cloud formations seen from the Deal Island area were among the most
interesting I have ever seen.  Some were very low and looked like huge
lacey wings.
Helen Patton

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Silver Spring, MD 20901
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