Date: 8/25/12 5:44 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Assateague ORV this morning


Hey all,


I had to drop out of pelagic due to maintenance issues with the old car.



John Landers and I went to ORV this morning after a quick stop at
bayside point. Winds pretty strong out of East all morning.


08/25/12 - 730am-1030am
Assateague Island NS--ORV

Great Shearwater - 1
Brown Pelican - 15
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (flyby over bay, seen from ORV)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (flyby over bay, seen from ORV)
Osprey - 1 (flyby over bay, seen from ORV)
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult, immature)
American Kestrel - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 61
Semipalmated Plover - 4
American Oystercatcher - 6
Willet - 87 (two were eastern)
Whimbrel - 10
Marbled Godwit - 2
Ruddy Turnstone - 41
Sanderling - 5253
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Parasitic Jaeger - 1 (dark adult, flew in from the east then south over beach)
Laughing Gull - 26
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Herring Gull - 278
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 21 (various ages)
Great Black-backed Gull - 39
Caspian Tern - 11
*ARCTIC TERN - 1 (adult breeding plumage, loafing with Common & Royal Terns,
roughly same size, very thin dark red
bill, very short red feet,
tail slightly longer than wing tip, gray
underneath when facing
me, my second in county, last one in
early 1990s and one at
Hart-Miller Is in May 2007 but no one
provide details from island
to MD Record Committee)
Common Tern - 10
Forsters Tern - 2
Royal Tern - 153
Black Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
Fish Crow - 2
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (flyby south on way back)



Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
<KeyWeststyle2001...>

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