This afternoon there were seven American White Pelicans standing
on the mud of a shallow portion of the Blackwater River at Blackwater NWR.
They were visible from the wildlife drive, but one must know where to look.

 

          In addition, the refuge is now hosting numbers of Snow Geese in
the many thousands - quite a few more than have been seen there in recent
years.

 

          And finally, for fanciers of big flocks,  uncountable  hordes of
Common Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds were present on 2/21, and during
my visit today those hordes seemed to have doubled overnight!  They were
feasting within the fields of standing corn as well as on every spot of open
ground available as far as the eye could see on either side of Key Wallace
Drive and down Rte 335 on either side as viewed from the intersection of
those two roads.   (Brief scanning did not turn up a single white feather,
and certainly no signs of unusual blackbirds.  Even to find a single Cowbird
in this group was quite difficult.)

 

LES ROSLUND

TALBOT COUNTY

EASTON, MD

 

 

 

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