Worcester County White-faced Ibis - Not seen 05/07/99
MHoff36100@aol.com
Sat, 8 May 1999 07:41:17 EDT
MD listers --
I birded Truitt's Landing from 1145-1600 on Friday, 05/07/99, looking for the
previously reported White-faced Ibis. All of my time was along the road,
mostly watching the northwest "pool" where a small group (6-8) of Glossy Ibis
was present all day. Occasionally one or two birds would leave and another
one or two would fly in, so there was some turnover. I figure I saw about 15
glossies during the day. None suggested white-faced, but clearly the bird
could still be around.
Other birds included 2 Soras south of the road (to the east) and 3 Sedge Wren
(all singing at the same time) at the far east end of the road, two south of
the road and more distant and one north of the road and right in the scrub
off the shoulder. By the way, the numbers of Soras reported here this spring
(Marshall and Jim had 4 on Sunday and Michael O'Brien and I also had 4 this
past Monday) are record Worcester County totals. Truitt's (in spring) has
always been the best place for this diifficult-to-find in Worcester species,
but even then a single individual was a good count (e.g., Michael missed this
species during our '94 Worcester big years).
Mark Hoffman
Mhoff36100@aol.com