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Eastern Shore Birds 3/5 to 3/8

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Mike Burchett

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Mike Burchett

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Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:29:37 -0400

Some birds I've managed to see when not working the past few days:

Thursday 3/5
Pemberton Park, Wicomico
6      Green-winged Teal
1      Brown Thrasher
25    White-throated Sparrow
3      Song Sparrow
5      Swamp Sparrow
1      Field Sparrow
6      Eastern Towhee


Friday 3/6
Salisbury Landfill, Wicomico
1      Thayer's Gull


Saturday 3/7
Chino Farms, Queen Anne's
1      Northern Shrike
(The bird was seen in the row of trees lining the South side of Round Top Rd just over a quarter mile West of Kibler Rd.  The bird was seen at the top of a tree at least 40 feet in the air and was scoped from Kibler Road looking Northwest.)

North of Chestertown, Kent
1      Ross's Goose
(At least one individual flying with a large scattered group of birds numbering in the tens of thousands.  The sky was covered with loose flocks of Snow Geese.  Quite cool!)


Sunday 3/8
Nanticoke Harbor, Wicomico
1      Osprey (found by Stasz and Boyd)

Muddy Hole Rd, Wicomico
3      Pine Warbler
2      Winter Wren

Riley Roberts Rd, Somerset
50     Yellowlegs (both Lessers and Greaters, some near and some distant)
35     Dunlin
2       Forster's Tern



Cheers and good birding,
Mike Burchett
Salisbury, MD