This morning my son Declan woke up at 6:30, crying because he wanted
to go see birds.

So we bundled up, brewed the coffee and headed out for some sunrise car birding.

We went to Bay Ridge and drove slowly around the point.  There was not
one duck to be seen, except for a distant flock moving up the bay.

I echo Tyler's post from yesterday... there were hundreds and hundreds
of Forsters Terns out on the Bay and on the community swimming area's
dock pilings.  No Gannets were out in the Bay, yet, but I understand
Chris Murray is headed to Thomas Point this morning.

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD


On Friday, November 6, 2009, James Tyler Bell <> wrote:
> I did a little birding in Anne Arundel county today. On my way to meet my carpool in Friendship, I detoured through North Beach (nothing going on there) but had a productive stop at Herrington Harbor. Clear weather made for ideal viewing of some gannets diving out on the Bay.
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> At lunch my friend Karen and I went over to Mayo Beach to see if there were any waterfowl around. There was only one Common Loon there but there was a nice flock of gulls and terns on the rip rapping and fencing there. The Forster's Terns were very vocal and at one point the whole flock of terns and gulls lifted up, for no apparent reason, and flew around then resituated in the same place. Weird. Still, I'm not sure I've ever seen that many Forster's Terns in one place except at Pt. Lookout State Park.
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> Tyler Bell
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> Location:    Herrington Harbor, 8:00-8:15am
> Observation date:    11/6/09
> Number of species:    7
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> Canada Goose        150
> Mallard               3
> NORTHERN GANNET      10
> Laughing Gull        25
> Ring-billed Gull     15
> Herring Gull         15
> Great Black-backed Gull    5
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> Location:    Mayo Beach, 12:15-12:45pm
> Observation date:    11/6/09
> Number of species:    8
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> Common Loon           1
> Turkey Vulture        2
> Laughing Gull         8
> Ring-billed Gull      6
> Herring Gull          3
> Great Black-backed Gull    5
> Forster's Tern      200
> Carolina Wren         1
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> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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