Yesterday My dad and I went to Assateague to get an ORV Permit and to  see 
the owl.   We saw the Snowy Owl around 12:00 facing  the sun on top of a dune  
that was between Bull pen and Fox Run. We walked  south of the owl to get  
better pictures when a flock of gulls flew over  and flushed the owl off the dune. 
 The owl headed south  and landed on  the beach.   I was surprised to see 3 
cars go by the owl without noticing  it. The owl then took off southward and 
landed on another dune. We  drove  further south  exploring the beach and dunes 
for other birds.  After  driving  for a while with very few birds to see we 
headed back. We  found the owl perched on a shrub on the closest dune to the  
beach,  around 40 feet from our car. We stopped and took great  pictures of the  
Owl and ate a late  lunch while we  watched.    25 to 30 minutes later a 
flock of Ring-billed  Gulls attacked the Snowy Owl who finally had enough and flew 
several hundred  feet farther down the beach.   Other birds we saw were:
5,  Common Loons
7,   Red throated Loons
2,  Horned Grebes
12,  Buffleheads
40+,  Surf scoters
7,  White winged Scoters
5,  Great Cormorants 
30+,   Double crested Cormorant
2,   Great blue Herons
1000+,   Canada geese
150,   Brant 
4,   Snow Geese 
6,   Black Ducks
2,   Long tailed Duck
2,   Hooded Merganser 
25,   Black Vultures
60+,   Turkey Vultures 
1,   Bald Eagle 
30+,  Sanderlings
5,   Dunlin
2,   Bonaparte's Gulls
50+,   Laughing Gulls
100+,   Ring billed Gulls
6,   Herring Gulls
2,   Lesser Black backed Gulls
150+,   Great Black backed Gulls
15,    Rock Doves
* 1,  Snowy Owl
25+,   Fish Crows
30,    Fish Crows
2, Horned larks
15,   Tree Swallows
4,   Carolina Chickadees 
3,   Carolina Wrens
2,   Winter Wrens
5,   Golden crowned Kinglets
5,   Blue Birds
15,   American Robins
1,   Mocking Bird
12+,   Yellow Rumped Warblers
                                                                              
                                          Birding forever
                                                                              
                                         Jennifer Elmer
                                                                              
                                   Pocomoke City MD 
           
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