Of possible interest to county listers were sightings yesterday (Saturday) of these three species in Morgantown, Charles County.

The SNOW GOOSE was in a flock of Canadas in a field on the west side of Morgantown Road just before it turns to parallel the water. This species was reported here in November. We only saw one Snow Goose. A second large white goose did not have apparent black on the wing tips and had an orange bill.

The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on a private pier to the east of the corner where Morgantown Road turns to parallel the water.

A flock of ROCK PIGEONS flew over as we were scoping the geese.

Otherwise, not a lot of waterfowl, and the wrong time of day to scope the Potomac. We had a few unidentified ducks which we neglected to count and include in the eBird report.

Leslie Starr & Joe Turner
Port Republic


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> Date: March 20, 2011 10:29:44 AM EDT
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> Subject: eBird Report - Morgantown , 3/19/11
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> Location:     Morgantown
> Observation date:     3/19/11
> Number of species:     22
> 
> Snow Goose     1
> Canada Goose     110
> Mallard     2
> Greater Scaup     13
> Long-tailed Duck     4
> Bufflehead     8
> Horned Grebe     6
> Double-crested Cormorant     14
> Osprey     2
> Bald Eagle     2
> Ring-billed Gull     14
> Herring Gull     28
> Lesser Black-backed Gull     1
> Great Black-backed Gull     1
> Forster's Tern     3
> Rock Pigeon     18
> Downy Woodpecker     1
> Fish Crow     1
> crow sp.     7
> Northern Mockingbird     1
> Red-winged Blackbird     1
> Common Grackle (Purple)     5
> blackbird sp.     25
> House Sparrow     X
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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