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Calvert Co: Parkers Creek; 25 May highlights

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Sherman Suter

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Sherman Suter

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Mon, 26 May 2008 16:58:51 -0400

Sunday, we kayaked up Parkers Creek to the now-breached beaver dam (we were on the creek 1045 to 1400 EDT).  Highlights were:
  Yellow-Crowned Night Heron 1 (2nd calendar-yr bird, which we watched for over a half hour as it foraged along the edge of the creek to the west of the pilings of the former bridge).
  Mississippi Kite  1  (adult, passed overhead N-bound, c 1-km in from the Bay);
  Willow Flycatcher   1  calling from shrubs to E of creek, c 100 m downstream from beaver dam;
  Prothonotary Warbler  2 males (wet woods in vicinity of former bridge);
  
Seemingly fewer than usual numbers of Marsh Wrens, but that may have been the time of day or the breeze.

Sherman Suter
Port Republic MD 20676  / Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org