Hi all,
It been a long tiring day, cold, wet. Relaxed in warm bath after trip and took a nap. But it was fun scanning while battling the rain and wind. A big thank you to Steve Sanford for letting me know what going on across MD while I was out in the storm. Had plan going to D.C. or Point Lookout after North Point but was diverted to southern AA Co to see if anything came by. Too tired to do North beach afterward.
09/06/08 - 9am-330pm
North Point State Park "fishing pier" Bay Shore Rd., Edgemere, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: Rain/Heavy Rain, 78-75 degrees, ENE 20 mph- NNE 21 mph (Gust
24 mph- 35 mph)
Mallard - 2 (toward SSW)
Double-crested Cormorant - 19 (back and forth all day)
Great Blue Heron - 3
Cattle Egret - 42 (Angus beef farm on North Point Rd)
Osprey - 2
Killdeer - 1 (flyby toward HMI??)
Spotted Sandpiper - 3 (fishing pier)
Ruddy Turnstone - 1 (flyover toward HMI??)
Sanderling - 1 (flyby toward HMI)
Least Sandpiper - 1 (fishing pier, flushed by fisherman toward HMI)
LONG-TAILED JAEGER - 1 (juv., headed south)
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 18
Herring Gull - 1
Great Black-backed Gull - 26
Caspian Tern - 8 (back and forth to/from HMI)
Common Tern - 2
BLACK TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
Tree Swallow - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 2
Common Grackle - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
SPECIES: 24
TOTAL BIRDS: 143
MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 6
Eastern Cottontail - 1
09/06/08 - 435pm-515pm
Herrington Harbour, Walnut Ave., Friendship, Anne Arundel Co., MD
WEATHER: Rain, 71 degrees, N 24 mph- NW 21 mph, Gust 31 mph
Canada Goose - 8 (pond north of here)
Mallard - 6 (marina area)
Double-crested Cormorant - 15
Great Blue Heron - 1
Osprey - 2
Killdeer - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Ruddy Turnstone - 1
Laughing Gull - 20
Ring-billed Gull - 28
Herring Gull - 2
Great Black-backed Gull - 33
Caspian Tern - 6
Royal Tern - 3
Common Tern - 2
Forster's Tern - 4
BLACK TERN - 4 (headed S)
Mourning Dove - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 2
Song Sparrow - 2
Swamp Sparrow - 1 (weedy path on north jetty)
Northern Cardinal - 1
SPECIES: 23
TOTAL BIRDS: 147
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
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