Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:13:14 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Bombay Hook and Delaware Bay Comments: cc: Marian Dodson Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yesterday, May 8, Marian Dodson and I took Tony Eveleigh, the visiting British birder to Bombay Hook and various location along the Delaware Bay. Altogether we logged 73 species, bringing Tony's new life birds to a total of 98. Yesterday's complete list follows, with Tony's (probable) Lifers indicated with an asterisk. Heard only birds are also indicated, which I believe Tony does not count. Marian: Let me know any errors or omissions. Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Turkey Vulture Canada Goose American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Osprey *Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk *Northern Bobwhite (Heard only) *Clapper Rail *King Rail (Heard only) Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer *American Oystercatcher *Black-necked Stilt *American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper *Willet Spotted Sandpiper *Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling *Semipalmated Sandpiper *Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin *Short-billed Dowitcher *Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull *Forster's Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Fish Crow (Not confirmed by voice) *Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren *Marsh Wren (Spectacular look at singing bird) Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird *Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee *Seaside Sparrow (Very good look at singing bird) Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle *Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================