Computer problems prevented me from posting earlier some highlights
of a trip to the Eastern Shore by members of the Montgomery Bird Club
on Friday and Saturday, January 15-16, 2010.
Here are some excerpts from the leader's trip report to the MBC:
Jan. 15 Highlights: a handsome male Common Goldeneye flying over us
at Kent Narrows; an inquisitive group of Brown-Headed Nuthatches at
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center; adult GOLDEN EAGLE and lots of
sparrows at Pickering Creek; Cackling Goose, Wilson's Snipe, Eastern
Meadowlark, and 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS at Blackwater, the owls seen
hunting in a perfect, windless dusk along Shorter's Wharf Rd..
Jan 16 Highlights: both EIDER species, all 3 Scoter sp., RED KNOT at
Ocean City Inlet; 2 more Common Eiders and 14 Long-tailed Ducks at
32nd St., Ocean City; Lesser Black-backed Gull at Skimmer Island; 12
waterfowl species at West Ocean City Pond; Black-bellied Plovers,
Dunlins, American Oystercatchers, and a WILLET (Western) at Eagles
Landing (Castaways) campground, where we also had a close, feeding
Horned Lark flock containing a Chipping Sparrow; another Cackling
Goose, this one in a skein of Snow Geese, at South Point; MARSH WREN
on Assateague Island.
Maryland birding partisans may be amused to note that Day 3 of our
trip, entirely in Sussex County, Delaware, was blessed with wind and
increasingly heavy rain. We still had some good birds! Results
posted to DE-Birds.
Mike Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club
Bethesda, MD
D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
Telephone: (301) 530-5764
e-mail: dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom
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