I’ve been a regular visitor to Ocean City, Maryland, since I was a newborn in 1949. My paternal grandmother owned a small apartment building providing my family with a free week-long vacation stay every summer. As a kid I did my share of beach going, board walking, fishing, and especially crabbing during those days. I also had an interest in bird watching or birding as they call it today.

The back bays and coastlines provided a bountiful smorgasbord of seabirds to observe. In addition to various species of seagulls and terns there were great numbers of plovers, sandpipers, oystercatchers, blue herons, little green herons, ospreys and others. However, back in the day there were no brown pelicans or cormorants. However, that would change as time passed.

There were no brown pelicans in the

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