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Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:24:05 -0400

Long-tailed Jaeger and adult tropical tern at North Beach in last 20 minutes. Former heading NE, latter bombing south.

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From: "Ronald Gutberlet" <>
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Hurricane Irene Birds
Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2011 8:16 pm


Hi Everyone,

Early this morning (27 Aug 2011) Dan Small and I birded Taylor's Island in Dorchester County for a few hours.  Later we met Jim Brighton for some Wicomico birding.  Finally we all stood in the rain at the Hurlock WWTP (Dorchester) before calling it a day.

We'd hoped to have a few migrant warblers on Taylor's Island, but found only one American Redstart.  An interesting sight was a group of 46 Eastern Kingbirds clustered on a few adjacent wires as the first rain of the day began to fall.

Afterwards, we watched the Bay from the end of Punch Island Rd on Taylor's Island from 7:55-10:20 am.  Highlights included:

Brown Pelican--32
Common Tern--5
Forster's Tern--82
Royal Tern--7
Caspian Tern--2
Black Tern--one group of 6 flying south

Our most exciting birds in Wicomico--and of the day--were 5 BLACK TERNS at the Log Cabin Rd turf farm--a county bird for all 3 of us!  Wicomico's turf farms are already nice and soggy with good puddles and should have nice shorebird habitat for at least a few days after the storm passes.  We also had a COMMON TERN with 34 Royal Terns on one of the jetties at the Cedar Hill Marina in Wicomico.  A flock of 9 Pectoral Sandpipers was near one of the ponds at the Plantations (opposite Wright's Market).

Highlights at Hurlock were 21 BLACK TERNS, a ROYAL TERN, and a Blue-winged Teal.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!  Good luck with the weather and have fun,

Ron Gutberlet
Salisbury, MD

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