I went through the Augusta Taco Bell drive through early yesterday afternoon and noticed a bird foraging under a crab apple tree. I grabbed my bins and it was the pine grosbeak reported from the same location last week. It was located opposite the drive through window. That was a Taco Bell lifer.
Was at Indian Township on Monday afternoon. I did not get until late afternoon when the birds were quiet. There were several bald eagles at a moose carcass dump. The most exciting observation was a white short-tailed weasel who keep running through brush and coming out every few feet and looking at us. With that white fur, it looked like a 'sitting duck'. What a curious creature. Earlier in the fall, there were 28 turkey vultures feeding and roosting at this location.
Farther south in Maryland, my sister took her grandkids to Conowingo Dam which crosses the Susquehanna River near Pennsylvania. There are well over 200 bald eagles that hang out there feeding on fish parts after they get chewed up in the turbines. My sister counted 186 in view at once sitting on rocks. There were others in trees and out of view. Also, there were numerous vultures of both flavors. It is also a magnet for winter gulls with 15 species documented at the site.
Norm from Augusta
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-- Norman Famous, Wetlands and Wildlife Ecologist
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