Migration observations...

[TI-tick]

Are geese starting to show up in good numbers on the eastern shore?

What's good numbers?

There's been a flock of about 30 hanging around the dock where I'm at off Balls Creek and I see groups in the fields ranging from maybe 50 to 150. I talked to a hunter about 3 weeks ago who said something about cold in PA working the birds down to the shore. I don't think that's happened yet.

IDK about the hunting seasons but from the apparent blood on the dock from those local birds, at least a few got winged somehow.

This is in Talbot Co.

 

[brianns]

We got Juncos, Cardinals, Tufted Titmice, Chickdees(Gray Capped or Carolina) a couple types of woodpeckers and a couple other species and gray squirrels that eat from our feeders currently.

 

[Mr H]

What's good numbers?

There's been a flock of about 30 hanging around the dock where I'm at off Balls Creek and I see groups in the fields ranging from maybe 50 to 150. I talked to a hunter about 3 weeks ago who said something about cold in PA working the birds down to the shore. I don't think that's happened yet.

IDK about the hunting seasons but from the apparent blood on the dock from those local birds, at least a few got winged somehow.

This is in Talbot Co.

We were on TI today briefly, and I was stunned at the lack of geese all along the drive across and down.

Even down at Black Walnut Point the usual mass of assorted water birds was mostly absent.

Everyone I speak to about this believes that there is something screwball about migration this year.

 

[TI-tick]

We were on TI today briefly, and I was stunned at the lack of geese all along the drive across and down.

Even down at Black Walnut Point the usual mass of assorted water birds was mostly absent.

Everyone I speak to about this believes that there is something screwball about migration this year.

Two of the current geeese overwintered at Balls Creek last year. Now they are back with what I reckon is one of their youngsters and a larger group following where the two feed. Interesting to watch.

Sea ducks are around but not many.

 

[ChannelCat]

I wonder if I saw a brown creeper a couple weeks ago. I was in a tree stand and I could see something small climbing up a tree. It just didn't seem like a nut hatch because it never turned upside down and it wasn't a woodpecker.

You might very well have. I've seen brown creepers a number of times while in a deer stand.

 

[ChannelCat]

In addition to the white-throated sparrows, juncos, and brown creeper, I forgot to mention that the ruby-crowned and golden-crown (pictured) kinglets have returned.

A couple weeks ago, we also had a Carolina wren with a really tiny tail; this bird had probably just molted.

 

[Mr H]

Horned Grebes have joined the 'Great Chesapeake Duck Slick' off Downs Park...

 

[smkranz]

It was a gorgeous and warm sunny afternoon here to sit outside. I gazed up, and there had to be a hundred or more turkey buzzards gliding across the sky in groups of 10-20. I'm easily amused, and it was very cool to watch them ride the currents, there was barely a flap of a wing here and there. How the heck to they do that?

 

[smkranz]

So, when you see geese flying across the sky in a V-shape, why is one side longer than the other?
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[Clark W. Griswold]

So, when you see geese flying across the sky in a V-shape, why is one side longer than the other?
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Because there’s more geese on that side

 

[smkranz]

Because there’s more geese on that side

 

[Jim12]

What's good numbers?

There's been a flock of about 30 hanging around the dock where I'm at off Balls Creek and I see groups in the fields ranging from maybe 50 to 150. I talked to a hunter about 3 weeks ago who said something about cold in PA working the birds down to the shore. I don't think that's happened yet.

IDK about the hunting seasons but from the apparent blood on the dock from those local birds, at least a few got winged somehow.

This is in Talbot Co.

It seems pretty light to me, but I'm not counting them.

 

[Mr H]

So, when you see geese flying across the sky in a V-shape, why is one side longer than the other?
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They can't count.

 

[Mr H]

So, this week we've seen an increase in Scaup, and the arrival of Ring Neck Duck and Green Winged Teal on inland ponds/lakes.

 

[TI-tick]

About this time yesterday it sounded like ambush city, 20 shots or so, x 3 or so.

 

[Mr H]

About this time yesterday it sounded like ambush city, 20 shots or so, x 3 or so.

OK... it wasn't just us!!

Grasonville area sounded like a shooting gallery!

 

[TI-tick]

OK... it wasn't just us!!

Grasonville area sounded like a shooting gallery!

The gunners I'm familiar with keep individual blinds, maybe 3 people max per each field.

The volume of fire was 3x that.

 

[Mr H]

Off the Pasadena Coast today...

Redheads, Canvasback and :drumroll: Red Throated Loons!!

 

[Mr H]

Looks like the 'early returners' are earlier...

Great Egret seen at Lighthouse Sound (Bishopville) earlier this week, and Eastern Phoebes seen the past couple days in AACo.

 

[foodpoison]

I saw some robins last Thursday. That's a tad early correct?