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Oxbow Lake - Black Tern, Least Tern, Forester's Tern

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Marcy Stutzman

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Marcy Stutzman

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Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:11:34 -0400

Hurricane Irene brought Black Tern, Least Tern, and Forester's Tern to Oxbow Lake today.

Oxbow Lake, Anne Arundel, US-MD
Aug 28, 2011 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)

Comments:  Post Hurricane Irene: I was at the Oxbow for about 4 hours, part 
of the time Ira Simon was there and part of the time Jay Sheppard was there. I 
had the Least Terns, Forester's Terns, and Black Tern while Ira was there. I 
left to go get Jay so he could come verify it was a Black Tern. Hurricane Irene 
started raining on Saturday afternoon and continued through about 7 am this 
morning. The Little Patuxent River backflowed into Oxbow Lake last evening (the 
gage height reached about 9.5 ft at around 2:00 a.m.). From Big Pool Bluff Jay 
and I watched the water flowing back out the outlet channel. We'll just have to wait 
to see if the beaver dam holds after the excess water flows over it and back to the river.

25 species

Canada Goose  5
Wood Duck  10
Mallard  14
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  5
Little Blue Heron  8
Green Heron  4
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  3
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Least Tern  2
Black Tern  1
Forster's Tern  6
Chimney Swift  150
Belted Kingfisher  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  2
Bank Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  200
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  75
American Goldfinch  2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD


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