This posting is for Friday, Jan 28.
The temp on Friday in Northumberland was about 21 degrees, clear skies and
very brisk winds. Morning travels on the NNK took me to Hull Neck and Mob
Neck, both of these places are on the Potomac. As I mentioned there was a very
brisk wind, rolling up to the shore on the Potomac was about 30 yards of slush
and ice. Hull Neck and Mob Neck are near where the Potomac meets the
Chesapeake Bay. In the afternoon I stopped by the Great Wicomico Bridge (Route
200), also very cold and stiff winds were blowing. After birding at the bridge
I stopped by Smokin Joe's Barbeque in Kilmarnock to fuel, talley and warm up. I
also stopped by to see if the white hawk was about, but no such luck. My last
stop for the day was on Balls Neck and Dameron Marsh, both locations were cold
and the winds were still a blowin...
I stopped counting robins and starlings as they were in all the farm
fields, peoples' front lawns, on the side of the road throughout the whole day.
Hull Neck:
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Eagle Adult 2
Red Shoulder 1
BuffleHead 9M 1F
Song Sparrow 1
White Throat 1
Pine Warbler 1
Robins lots
Starling lots
Mockingbird 6
Cardinal 2M 2F
Blue Birds 16
TV 9
Crow sp 23
Vir Mar Beach // Mob Neck
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Fox Sparrow 1
Mockingbird 2
Song Sparrow 2
Yellow Rump 7
Robins
Starling
Red Tail 2
TV 12
Crow sp 8
Am Crow 1
Killdeer 1
Sunnybank Ferry // Mob Neck
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Ruddy Ducks 56
Canada Geese 150
Hooded Mergansers 22M 17F
Mallards 28
Eagle juv 1 this was probably a last yr
juvenile as there were only a few dark feathers in the tail
C Goldeneye 6
Am Crow 1
Crow sp 13
Blue Heron 1
TV 7
Bufflehead 21
Otter 1 This is always a great sighting, the
otter is truely the eternal child. It has fun no matter what.
Route 200 Great Wicomico Bridge
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Red Breasted Mergs 8
Ruddies 135
Hooded Mergs 9 M 5 F
Ring Neck 14
Greater Scaup 8
Bufflehead 17
At the campground right before the Great Wicomico Bridge
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Wild Turkey 4
Balls Neck Route 605 and 606 converge
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White Throat 78
Downey W/P 2
Song Sparrow 9
Crow sp 5
Kestral 1
Yellow Rump 18
Blue Bird 7
Dameron Marsh
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Eagle adult 1
Yellow Rump 74
Song Sparrow 19
Mute Swans 17 (orange bill)
Tundra Swans 104 (black bill)
last bird of the day:
Virginia Rail 1
Regards,
Jack Carroll
Centreville, VA.
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