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MBC trip to Eastern Shore, January 15-16, 2010

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Michael Bowen

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Michael Bowen

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:32:10 -0500

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
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