Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:35:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sam Droege Subject: Jug Bay Rocks! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii For those of you interested in CBC results.... December 16, 2001 Jug Bay Count Preliminary Results What a superb day: sunny, no wind, a high of 62 and a low of 27. Despite normal coverage hours we managed to blast our previous high count of 115 with 122 species. Four species were new to the count (Great Egret, Royal Tern, Lesser Yellowlegs, and Snow Bunting) and 26 new high totals for other species or species categories were achieved. Interesting observations were the complete lack of any scaup; lots of loons (partially due to a dedicated scoper), low diving duck totals, but not puddle ducks, high numbers of half-hardies catbirds, thrashers and hermit thrushes, low Myrtle Warblers, high White-breasted Nuthatches, low Kestrels, and bobwhite were again missed and presumed to be pretty much extinct in the circle. Thanks to everyone who participated and hope to have some additional blood come in next year to cover the many uncovered county and state park spots along the river. List below includes all species ever recorded on the Jug Bay CBC. *=New High **=New species to Count 60 Red-throated Loon* 37 Common Loon* 125 Loon Species* 8 Pied-billed Grebe* 7 Horned Grebe 36 Double-crested Cormorant 1 American Bittern 4 Great Egret** 101 Great Blue Heron* 18 Mute Swan 280 Tundra Swan 19684 Canada Goose* 1 Snow Goose (white) 0 (blue) 20 Wood Duck 506 Green-winged Teal 1327 American Black Duck* 1772 Mallard 136 Northern Pintail* 24 Northern Shoveler 14 Gadwall 75 American Widgeon* 35 Canvasback 0 Redhead 48 Ring-necked Duck 0 Greater Scaup 0 Lesser Scaup 0 Scaup Species 1638 Oldsquaw 0 Black Scoter 29 Surf Scoter 1 White-winged Scoter 0 Scoter Sp. 122 Common Goldeneye 1056 Bufflehead 53 Hooded Merganser 11 Common Merganser 5 Red-breasted Merganser 12 Ruddy Duck 188 Turkey Vulture 91 Black Vulture 7 Bald Eagle Unknown* 21 Bald Eagle Adult 4 Bald Eagle Immature 32 Bald Eagle Total* 0 Osprey 20 Northern Harrier 10 Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 Cooper's Hawk 0 Northern Goshawk 0 Accipiter Sp. 35 Red-shouldered Hawk 59 Red-tailed Hawk* 0 Rough-legged Hawk 8 American Kestrel 0 Merlin 0 Northern Bobwhite 35 Turkey* 1 King Rail 1 Clapper Rail 0 Large Rail Species 5 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 9 American Coot 0 Sandhill Crane 243 Killdeer 0 Dunlin 3 Lesser Yellowlegs** 0 Greater Yellowlegs 0 Purple Sandpiper 0 Sanderling 113 Common Snipe 2 American Woodcock 0 Sandpiper Species 190 Northern Gannet* 1 Royal Tern** 6 Forster's Tern* 519 Laughing Gull 8 Bonaparte's Gull 1316 Ring-billed Gull 998 Herring Gull 0 Thayer's Gull 0 Glaucous Gull 0 Lesser Black-backed Gull 148 Great Black-backed Gull 400 Gull Species 215 Rock Dove* 474 Mourning Dove 4 Common Barn Owl 1 Eastern Screech Owl 9 Great-horned Owl 6 Barred Owl 0 Northern Saw-whet Owl 0 Long-eared Owl 0 Large-owl Species 1 Short-eared Owl* 37 Belted Kingfisher 4 Red-headed Woodpecker 207 Red-bellied Woodpecker 55 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker* 149 Downy Woodpecker 32 Hairy Woodpecker 206 Northern Flicker 34 Pileated Woodpecker* 8 Eastern Phoebe 1 Horned Lark 304 Blue Jay 1294 American Crow 86 Fish Crow 43 Crow Species 0 Black-capped Chickadee 463 Carolina Chickadee 314 Tufted Titmouse 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch 107 White-breasted Nuthatch* 14 Brown Creeper 302 Carolina Wren 0 House Wren 40 Winter Wren 0 Sedge Wren 7 Marsh Wren 85 Golden-crowned Kinglet 34 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 0 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 342 Eastern Bluebird 0 Veery 140 Hermit Thrush* 2118 American Robin 31 Gray Catbird* 124 Northern Mockingbird 29 Brown Thrasher* 53 Water Pipit 413 Cedar Waxwing 2692 Starling 0 White-eyed Vireo 68 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 0 Palm Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 0 Yellow-breasted Chat 487 Northern Cardinal 91 Rufous-sided Towhee 0 Longspur Species 1 Snow Bunting** 7 American Tree Sparrow 2 Chipping Sparrow 60 Field Sparrow 31 Savannah Sparrow 54 Fox Sparrow* 850 Song Sparrow* 304 Swamp Sparrow* 1507 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 946 Dark-eyed Junco 0 Sparrow Species 6383 Red-winged Blackbird 0 Eastern Meadowlark 47 Rusty Blackbird 0 Blackbird Species 1697 Common Grackle 70 Brown-headed Cowbird 0 Baltimore Oriole 0 Orchard Oriole 8 Purple Finch 270 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 352 American Goldfinch 0 Evening Grosbeak 306 House Sparrow 55721 Total # of Individual Birds Weather: Hi 62 Low 27 , Sunny, Almost No Wind, No Ice, No Precipitation. Count Week: Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Scaup Species Total: 122 Sam Droege ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================