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Eared Grebe: YES

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Dan Haas

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Dan Haas

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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:08 -0500

First of all, thank you Mikey!  Great bird.  And to echo Jeff's
earlier post, this morning at 8AM, the Eared Grebe was present at
Piscataway Park.

There were ducks everywhere.  Or no... wait... spoke too soon.  There
were a few ducks and LOADS of garbage birds.  The site of all that
junk floating down the river was absolutely awful.  Several times I
thought I saw the bird pop up out of the water, only to discover that
it was an old milk jug or a beer can.  At one point I thought I had a
Black Swan in the river... but that turned out to be an old black
plastic garbage can floating gently down stream. Beer cans to plastic
bags, old water bottles to rusty oil cans... you name it, it was
floating by the boardwalk.  I thought for a second that I was at the
Salisbury Landfill looking for a California Gull.

Just a moment ago I wrote a letter to CBF, the Potomac Riverkeeper,
the Mayor of DC and MD's Governor about the river of refuse.  I doubt
much will come of it, but perhaps if other chime in on the matter,
maybe....

In any case, I'd like to once again thank Mikey for the great find.
I'm going to write my Christmas wish-list letter to St. Mikey instead
of that other guy with the long, white beard.  There are some birds
that I'd really like to see before the year ends.

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD