Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:58:21 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marshall Iliff Subject: first August Big Day attempt (Part II - list) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable August Big Day Iliff, Hafner, Gilbert, and....oh yeah...Day 25 Aug 2001 THE LIST Code 5=3D100% birds; should never be missed Code 4=3D80-90% birds; missable, but should be gotten most times Code 3=3D25-60% birds; unpredictable and likely to be missed most times Code 2=3D10-25% birds; long shots that are possible Code 1=3D<10% birds; extremely unlikely Pied-billed Grebe (4) - 4-5 on West OC Pond Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Mute Swan (4) - Seen from the Bay Bridge on the trip over Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal (4) - several at Elliott Island American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal (4) - West OC Pond, Elliott Island Northern Shoveler (4) - Two at Hurlock spotted by Andrew, usually larger flocks here by now GADWALL (3) - Three at Deal Island Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier (4) - Deal and Elliott RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (3) [MJI, MH, AG only] - Pocomoke area, one adult perche= d in open Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey (4) - north of Hurlock Northern Bobwhite (4) - Two at Bayside Campground BLACK RAIL (3) - Great show by 3-4 after dusk Clapper Rail Virginia Rail SORA (3) - 2-3 calling after dusk Common Moorhen (4) - Moorhen pond at Elliott, about 10 total Black-bellied Plover AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (3) - Singles at Rte. 50 pond west of Salisbury and Hurlock W.T.P. Semipalmated Plover PIPING PLOVER (3) - One on Eagle's Nest Flats Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper UPLAND SANDPIPER (3) - Five at Salisbury Airport Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper (4) - Five at Rte. 50 pond, Salisbury Pectoral Sandpiper DUNLIN (2) - One at Eagle's Nest Flats Short-billed Dowitcher Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull (4) - One first-winter at Central Landfill Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern [MH only] Black Skimmer Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo (4) - Several locations Eastern Screech-Owl (4) - My house and near Vienna Great Horned Owl (4) - Several locations Barred Owl (4) - Several locations on Pocomoke COMMON NIGHTHAWK (3) - One at dusk at Elliott Island CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW (2) - One perched 20' up in Red Maple on Life of Forest Trail, Assateague Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher (4) - Bayside and Central Landfill Red-headed Woodpecker (4) - At one Pocomoke site Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker (4) - Pocomoke Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker Pileated Woodpecker (4) - Pocomoke Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow (4) - Hurlock WTP Bank Swallow CLIFF SWALLOW (3) [MJI, TMD, MH only] - One at Hurlock WTP was great to find Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch (4) - Eagle's Nest Campground Carolina Wren House Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird VEERY (3) - 20+ in pre-dawn flight at Salisbury Wood Thrush=A0 - probably mis-coded, almost missed, Old Bradley Rd. near Vie= nna had a few American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing European Starling White-eyed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula (4) - One at Porter's Crossing Yellow Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler (4) - Several locations Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart PROTHONOTARY WARBLER (3) - One in dawn flight at Bayside, others at 2-3 locations on Pocomoke River; =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 probably mis-coded Worm-eating Warbler (4) - Red House Rd. and North Tara Rd. near Hurlock Ovenbird (4) - Old Bradley Rd. near Vienna Common Yellowthroat Summer Tanager (4) - One at Porter's Crossing Scarlet Tanager (4) - One at Assateague and one at Furnacetown Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow LARK SPARROW (1) - One imm. found by Hoffman at north end of Assateague SP was still present Grasshopper Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow (4) - Elliott Island Seaside Sparrow Song Sparrow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole (4) - Nine Mile Branch Rd. and town of Hurlock Baltimore Oriole (4) - Assateague and Millville Rd. 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