[nnasnet] sunset at Dameron

  • From: Tom Saunders <birdnerd53@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nnasnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:37:24 -0500

It was colder and quieter tonight than it was last weekend but Dameron
Marsh was still worth visiting this afternoon. Nearly 300 Canada Geese,
40-some tundra swans and 90 or so ring-billed gulls were roosting in the
shallows (abnormally low tides today). Buffleheads were in constant motion.
An adult bald eagle was perched on one of the distant duck blinds. Clapper
rails called from the needlerush. A pair of great horned owls appears to be
setting up housekeeping in the osprey nest in a dead pine on the northern
edge of the preserve. Several flocks of robins moved past. Red-winged
blackbirds settled into the marsh grasses as darkness descended. The lights
of Tangier Island were clear to the northeast. Best of all, American
woodcock peented and displayed from near the path and a lone bogsucker
landed briefly right beside me before quickly taking off again.

Tom Saunders
Balls Neck

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