Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:56:03 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Horsehead Wetlands Center 8/19/01 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is the report for Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland on August 19, 2001. Observers: Kevin Graff, Bill Schreitz 1 Brown Pelican (in distance west of Parson Island) 8 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 12 Snowy Egret 2 Great Egret 49 Canada Goose 56 Mallard 11 American Black Duck 1 Wood Duck 3 White-winged Scoter (Prospect Bay) 4 Turkey Vulture 14 Osprey 10 Killdeer 19 Semipalmated Plover 1 Greater Yellowleg 31 Lesser Yellowleg 6 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 26 Semipalmated Sandpiper 8 Least Sandpiper 11 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Stilt Sandpiper 4 Short-blled Dowitcher 7 Laughing Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 8 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 1 Least Tern 10 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great-crested Flycatcher 5 Eastern Kingbird 1 Purple Martin 50 Barn Swallow 3 Tree Swallow 38 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 19 Bank Swallow 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 13 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 18 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 9 Northern Mockingbird 44 European Starling 1 White-eyed Vireo 3 Yellow Warbler 1 Northern Parula 1 Pine Warbler 11 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Field Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 61 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Common Grackle 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 9 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 67 species Numberous swallows seen over Prospect Bay headed SE. Some shorebirds sp. continued to rise. Before going to Horsehead, Bill and I went to John Brown Rd. and Rt 309 pond at 7am to try our luck on Ruff and Upland Sandpipers. None seen at both site, but interested bird seen at Rt 309 pond was a couple flyover Caspian Terns headed south. One Horned lark seen flyover at John Brown Rd headed NEE. There are few nice birds at both places. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================