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This report is forwarded on behalf of Talbot County Bird Club member Joanne
Laskowski.

 

Les Roslund

Talbot County

Easton, MD

 

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From: Joanne Laskowski [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:59 PM
To: Les Roslund
Subject: rare sighting sabine's gull

 

Hi Les,

Today, we took some friends out into the Bay for a day of fishing looking
for stripers and blue fish.  Little did we know that we would sight my 500th
life bird - a sabine's gull!

A couple of miles south of Tilghman's Island about 3 pm in the afternoon on
an incoming tide, we spotted a juvenile sabine's gull off the stern of our
boat.  We watched the bird feeding on bait fish along side a laughing gull.
Once we confirmed that it was a sabine's gull, we followed it and took
several pictures while it was sitting on the water about 50 ft. from us and
then as it took off as we approached more closely.

In addition, we also saw a red-necked phalarope sitting on the water one
mile south of the sabine's gull location earlier in the morning on the slack
tide.  
Finally, a pied-billed grebe was seen in the Little Choptank River as we
returned from a great day of birding and fishing!

All birds were seen by myself, Hal, and Lou Hinds, refuge manager of
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and his wife.

Joanne Laskowski

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