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Re: Scissor Tailed Flycatcher in Northern Queen Annes County 8 - 22 -,09

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"Hoffman, Mark"

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Hoffman, Mark

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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:00:25 -0400

Bird is there right now. Just south of fruit stand on wires.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	danny poet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:	Saturday, August 22, 2009 04:49 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Subject:	[MDOSPREY] Scissor Tailed Flycatcher in Northern Queen Annes County      8 - 22 -,09

  Around 1:30 Pm this afternoon  I reciced a phone calll from Jan Reese who had seen a Scissor Tailed  Flycatcher  near Sudlersville while he was working in the area  this morning . I went on up there to check it out  arriving  around 2:30 pm and finding it  in the area he described  on a powerline near the road . weather was mostly cloudy at the time  but the  bird stood out pretty well . Bird is moulting  It has only one tail streamer  and not much  color other then black and gray  and a little washed out yellow underneath the bird . I did get some photos that will be forwarded to the  records committee. I had the bird in sight  for around 35 minutes . I saw it fly out over a corn field and caught  some sort of prey item .  At 3:05 it flew to some trees behind a mobile home and some old buildings  that has a small produce stand in the front yard . Habitat was corn and soybean fields  with scattered trees . Bird may stay around  for a while seemed  to  be comfortable in the area .

    Directions take Route 301 North to Route 300 east to Sudlersville  in town  turn on to  RT 313 north  about a couple of miles  out of town  look  on the the powerlines  near  the above mentioned  small produce  stand . Good luck to those who try to refind it .  Road  Shoulders are fairly  wide  there but please  be carefull  of the traffic and viewing is from the road only we have NO permisson  to enter private property  so act accordingly .

 

 

 

Happy Birding

Danny Poet 

Queenstown, Maryland 

 

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