Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:27:12 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: Maryland Big Day (Part III - annotated list - loons to vireos) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MDOSprey, This very long annotated list from our Big Day has been rejected a few times= =20 for being too long to post. Still, I thought it might be of interest to some= =20 so have chopped it into two sections - LOONS to VIREOS and WARBLERS to HOUSE= =20 SPARROW. Enjoy... THE LIST=20 19 May 2001 - Marshall J. Iliff, George L. Armistead, Matt Hafner PACIFIC LOON (code 1; bird found while scouting 15 May at Ocean City was still present) Red-throated Loon** (one at OC Inlet) Common Loon* (one at Poplar, two on Choptank near Cambridge, one at OC Inlet= ) GREAT CORMORANT (code 2; one subadult at Skimmer Island had been found durin= g scouting 15 May; #200) Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron* (one adult at West OC Pond) Tricolored Heron* (missed by MJI; two dropped in to roost on Skimmer Island) Cattle Egret* (nesting at Skimmer Island) Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Mute Swan Snow Goose Brant** (a triumphant save! After being missed on Skimmer Island from Hooper's we drove around to 3rd St. in Ocean City at 8:40, when very close t= o pitch black, and were able to see 6 feeding on the back side of the island! #201) Canada Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal (one seen in flight at Elliott) Gadwall (fivbe at Elliott) CANVASBACK (code 2; a male by GLA 17 May at Cambridge hung in for us) Surf Scoter (one male, one female at Poplar) WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (code 2; two ad males, one im male at Poplar) Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle* (4 at Poplar, several at Elliott) Northern Harrier* (one distant bird spotted by MH at Elliott) Sharp-shinned Hawk** (missed by GLA; one flashed across road at Salisbury) Red-shouldered Hawk* (one off New Germany Rd. in Garrett and two near Annapolis) Broad-winged Hawk* (two spotted over Finzel by MH) Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel* (nest in Garrett; also one seen on wires in Cumberland) Wild Turkey* (one along Elliott Island Rd. and one south of Salisbury on Rte= . 12) Northern Bobwhite* (one heard along Drawbridge Rd., Dorchester Co.) Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Common Moorhen* (one heard at "Moorhen Pond" at Elliott) Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt* (three at Elliott; NOT found at Deal during scouting) Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs* (several sites: Terminus, Elliott, etc.) Solitary Sandpiper** (heard at night at Trout Run, one at Berlin WTP) Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper* (singing bird in Garrett heard at 4:47 a.m., EXACT time I had heard one during scouting the previous morning!) Whimbrel** (best spot of the day: Hafner picked this bird out of tall grass at 400 yards as it sat hunkered down on a sand spit at Cambridge) Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot (ranked as 5, should be code 4; several seen from Eagle's Nest, non= e on Skimmer Island!) Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper* (one present previous day at Terminus was still present with a Dunlin, also 3 at Berlin WTP) Purple Sandpiper=A0 =A0 (code 5; 3 at Poplar Island were noteworthy, also 15= + at OC Inlet) Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher American Woodcock* (peenting at 1:15 a.m. in Garrett) Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull** (at least 4 1st-summers in HUGE gull flock on Skimmer Island, as we had seen there 15 May) Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern** (one on Choptank in Cambridge, one seen by GLA at Eagle's Nes= t was rare for Worcester in spring) Royal Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern** (three seen by boat in Choptank River, and one feeding over rip= s at OC Inlet) Black Skimmer Rock Dove Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo* (several heard at night in Garrett, one heard singing b= y day in Garrett, one in Washington Co.) Yellow-billed Cuckoo* (several heard at night in Garrett, also in Worcester) Barn Owl* (Elliott Island and Marumsco Rd., Somerset County) Eastern Screech-Owl* (at stakeout location of Hafner's near OC at 9:08 p.m.; #203) Great Horned Owl* (seen at 4:50 p.m. at Elliott) Barred Owl* (Garrett County; two sites including Cranesville) SHORT-EARED OWL (display flight heard at known nest site in Garrett) Common Nighthawk* (calling over Frostburg Sheetz at 12:07a.m., #1) Chuck-will's-widow* (OC Aiport; at 9:00 p.m., #202) Whip-poor-will* (several singing along Old Furnace Rd., 9:35 p.m., #204 and final species of day) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird* (at 1 minute feeder in Garrett, e.g. hummingbird visit every one minute!) Belted Kingfisher* (missed by Iliff; missed at "lock" fish hatchery in Washington, despite 15 minute effort. Last minute save at West OC Pond at 8:05 p.m.) Red-headed Woodpecker* (Blue Ribbon Rd. in Garrett, second best pick of day, spotted sitting still at 100 yards by Armistead) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker* (ranked as 5, should be 4) (one at Rocky Gap, one in Hanoc= k) Hairy Woodpecker* (nest site in Garrett, plus several others in Garrett wher= e Hairy is common and Downy uncommon) Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker Pileated Woodpecker* (several in Garrett) Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher* (singing pre-dawn at Cranesville at 3:30 a.m.) Willow Flycatcher* (essential to our route was getting one giving a dawn son= g pre-dawn in Pleasant Valley, Garrett County, at 4:45 a.m.. This saved us a 1= 5 minute detour in crucial morning time) Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe* (ranked as 4, but should be 5) (many heard and seen in Garrett and Washington) Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Horned Lark* (ranked as 4, but should be 5) (many heard in Garrett) Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow* (Oakland WTP) Bank Swallow** (new route does not go past any nesting areas, gotten as migrant in Garrett and at Poplar) Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Black-capped Chickadee Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch** (several heard at Cheeks Lane, Garrett, a virtual "lock" location) White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch* (nest site on Old Furnace Rd. was key; 20 second effort produced calling bird) Brown Creeper* (ranked as 4, should be code 3; surprise bird singing 0.2 mi north of Roth Rock Rd., 3 birds found during scouting were thankfully not needed) Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren** (one bird scouted on Roth Rock Rd. frustrated us by waiting until 5:41 to sing, rather than 5:31 as it had the morning before. Undoubtedly the downpour of rain made him feel less like singing than on the overcast day before) Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet* (in Garrett at Swallow Falls, Cheeks Lane, Muddy Creek) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush** (nocturnal migrant; one heard in Garrett by GLA and MH= , three more heard in Worcester and Somerset) Swainson's Thrush* (nocturnal migrant; ONLY two heard in Garrett pre-dawn) Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing European Starling White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo* (stakeout near Hancock was whistled up!) Warbling Vireo* (Little Pool) Red-eyed Vireo list continued in message IV... Best, Marshall Iliff *********************** Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com Annapolis, MD ************************ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================