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Re: Interesting Teal, Swan Creek; CT Warbler

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Dan Haas

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Dan Haas

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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:48:50 -0400

I was too busy looking (without success) for those American Golden
Plovers to worry about a.. a what??? possible CINNAMON TEAL!!!?!??!
Hmmm, pays to look AROUND while birding.

Okay, so Stan had an amazing visit.  Mine was fairly impressive as
well.  I feel quite confident, though not eBird confident, to say that
there was a SEDGE WREN down at the wetland area.  The bird took flight
as I was walking back towards the HQ.  I knew immediately it was a
wren, but figured it was the Marsh that has been around recently.  At
the time I was playing Orange-crowned Warbler (don't ask, I just think
it gets bird excited) and the wren was emphatically CHIPPING back to
me.  A Common Yellowthroat (two actually) were in the vicinity
chipping as well, but the OTHER buzz call was IMO dead on for Sedge.
I played a bit of Sedge call, and it continued to call back... but
never showed itself and when I finally went to Screech, the bird
stopped chipping entirely.  Though, the Yellowthroats never lost
interest.

So that was one bird best left as unidentified.  The other was a large
peep sp. in the North cell.  I have a knack for scoping some odd peep
and taking awful (I mean, really terrible) iPhone-to-scope photos of
these distant shorebirds at Swan Creek.  What else can you do?
Anyway, I posted the results on my flickr page.

My initial impression was Sanderling that had a bite out of it's
neck... but even that didn't seem right.  This bird had golden brown
wings, white underwings, an all white belly, a pale
white-to-lemony-yellow face that would put you in mind of a Horned
Lark, an all-black, slightly long decurved (call it slightly dropping)
bill and a BLACK collar that... well, I did a drawing to show the
overall lines of the this dark pattern.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nervousbird/

It didn't seem injured.  In some of the photos, other peeps are in the
foreground and background for size comparison, but again I must warn
you... they're bad.

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
St. Margaret's, MD
nervousbirdsatgmail.com

*** NOTE: Swan Creek/Cox Creek is an active industrial site and mitigation
project in northern Anne Arundel Co. Access is at the end of Kembo Road off
Fort Smallwood Road near 695. The site is open ONLY Monday through Friday,
7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Please be in your car and leaving at 3:30 p.m..
Remember to always sign in at the office, to be on your best behavior
(people have worked hard to coordinate this access), and to stick to
permitted areas. This Swan Creek map linked here details where you are and
aren't allowed to walk. http://www.billhubick.com/docs/swan_creek_map.jpg.
***



On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:31 PM, stan arnold <> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I spent more than three hours at Swan Creek this afternoon/evening.  A teal
> in the south cell really caught my eye, to the extent that I took a bunch of
> digiscopes and video of the bird.  It seemed to have an unusually large
> bill, approaching that of a shoveler, and it seemed to have a particularly
> nice pattern--a uniform rusty reticulated pattern.  I took images because I
> thought it had the possibility of being a female Cinnamon Teal, but now
> think it could be a male in non-breeding plumage.  My images are not what I
> would call diagnostic, but are suggestive of this species.
>
> As I was birding the powerline area (not open to public), I got a call from
> Dan Haas about his finds, and just as I answered him a CONNECTICUT WARBLER
> popped into view, giving me a perfect look for about two or three seconds.
> Ed Carlson soon joined me, but much effort could not produce the bird
> again.  Anyway, I told Dan he could call me anytime; I greatly enjoyed the
> result.
>
> I am hoping that someone can get there in the a.m. and look for the teal;
> all the ducks tend to hide in the vegetation along the water's edge.
>
> *** NOTE: Swan Creek/Cox Creek is an active industrial site and mitigation
> project in northern Anne Arundel Co. Access is at the end of Kembo Road off
> Fort Smallwood Road near 695. The site is open ONLY Monday through Friday,
> 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Please be in your car and leaving at 3:30 p.m..
> Remember to always sign in at the office, to be on your best behavior
> (people have worked hard to coordinate this access), and to stick to
> permitted areas. This Swan Creek map linked here details where you are and
> aren't allowed to walk. http://www.billhubick.com/docs/swan_creek_map.jpg.
> ***
>
> Stan Arnold
> Ferndale
> 
>
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