As reported on the Baltimore Sun weather blog, there was indeed a meteor
reported Monday evening:

http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2010/01/twilight_meteor_reported_monda.html

--John McKitterick

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ross Geredien <>wrote:

> Ed,
> Wow, I forgot, I saw the same exact phenomenon last evening at twilight at
> Deal Island WMA.  It looked exactly like a meteor streaking downward, then
> it burned out soon before reaching the ground.  It left an illuminated trail
> of smoke in the glowing afterlight of sunset.  It was quite beautiful and
> stunning, actually.  I could only assume it was a meteor, though I'm not
> aware of any major showers right now.  Either that or a falling piece of
> space debris.
> Ross
>
> --- On Tue, 1/19/10, Ed Boyd <> wrote:
>
> From: Ed Boyd <>
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Razorbill at OC Inlet
> To: 
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 8:49 PM
>
> Regarding this, Jim Stasz, Bob Ringler and I were at the inlet last evening
> for about 2 hours as the sun set. We returned this morning at about 7:30 or
> so and stayed for an hour or so, left, returned at about 12:30, stayed for
> about 30 minutes as nothing was happening and were there again for another
> slow half hour at around 2:00. We had no Razorbills during this time frame.
> Today was very slow in general at the inlet for us. There were 4 seals on
> the dock behind the motel on the back side of the inlet and one on the rocks
> of the south jetty this morning. Jim will be posting the totals for us
> eventually, I'm sure.
>
> Last evening we had about 10,000 Snow Geese that had been rafting out on
> the ocean get up and fly inland at sundown while we were at the inlet. We
> left and went to the Francis Scott Key motel where another 5,000 or so birds
> continued to fly inland off the ocean overhead. We could only see them by
> this time due to the lights from the businesses along Rte. 50 shinning on
> them from below. It was an amazing site.
>
> We had just gotten to the hotel and unloaded when I saw something fall
> through the atmosphere to the west of us. The object was very bright with
> bits coming off of it as it fell. It kind of looked like a bottle rocket
> falling downward. I thought it was just a very bright meteor but it left a
> smoke trail in the atmosphere. The smoke trail lingered for sometime and it
> was because of this that we saw the geese come over as I had called Jim and
> Bob out to look at the trail in the sky. If anyone has any information on
> this phenomenon, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I have yet to do a search
> on it since returning home this evening.
>
> Ed Boyd
> Westminster, MD
> Phil Davis wrote:
> > MD Osprey:
> >
> > I just got a call from Leo Weigant. He is at the Ocean City, MD Inlet and
> had just had excellent views of a Razorbill in the middle of the inlet. The
> bird was found this morning (Tue 19 Jan 2010) by Lance Biechele around 9:25
> am and Leo watched it until about 9:35 am when it flew out towards the
> ocean.
> >
> > It sounds like there may be a large influx of Razorbills moving in. Leo
> said that Lance had heard of very large numbers north of us.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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> > Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
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