Ed , Wonder if this could be some kind of hunting technique. ? 

Saundra Byrd 
Baltimore 

--- On Tue, 1/19/10, Ross Geredien <> wrote:

> From: Ross Geredien <>
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Possible Meteor at Deal Island?
> To: 
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 9:13 PM
> 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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