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Oak Grove area (Caroline/Sussex Co) 11/22

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"Lovelace Glen (DelDOT)"

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Lovelace Glen (DelDOT)

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:58:45 -0500

Hello all,
                I tallied 52 species in my rounds about the Oak Grove area yesterday morning.  I noticed a stream of gulls passing by the house from SW to NE, but could not tell anything looking into the terrible sun glare.  So I headed over to Oak Grove Rd to see if there were any gulls in the fields and puddles.  Sure enough there were and I started sifting through them.  Every time I started to count, they would shuffle the deck.  On the third round of this, a first winter Iceland Gull appeared in front of me (on the Caroline side).  Before I could get out the scope, it picked up again and never came back.  Oh well, a nice county bird anyway.  The remaining gulls were 350 Ringers, 50 Laughers and 10 Herring.  In addition to that, FOS Tundra Swan (11 flyby), FOS Sapsucker in the yard, 8 E Meadowlark (really scarce here in recent years) 2 western Palm Warbler.

Good birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE