Date:         Thu, 15 May 2003 11:38:17 EDT
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From:         Tom Beal <THBeal@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Big Day VA-MD-DE 5/14
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Took a window of weather opportunity and did a big day yesterday.
5:30-9:00  Huntley Meadows,VA
9:30-10:30  Monticello Park, VA
11:30-1:00  Governors Bridge Rd PRR, MD
                  (with stops at a bluebird trail and staked out Kentucky
Warbler)
3:00-4:30   Bombay Hook, DE
5:00-6:00   Port Maho/Little Creek, DE
6:45-8:30   Ted Harvey, DE
10:30- Midnight  trying for owls in PG Co w/ no luck

Highlights-  144 species
                   Huntley Meadows - Blackburnian Warbler in parking lot just
as I was getting in car to leave
                   Monticello- after trudging through much muck looking for
Red-headed WP at Huntley Meadows,
                                    a sharp eyed birder found one there.
Should have gotten his name, he helped me get
                                    all seven for the day.  Great looks at
Cape May bathing.
                   Governors Bridge- a RB Grosbeak in a tree next to a bush
with a Blue GB
                   Bombay Hook- another bird out of place, Black-billed
Cuckoo
                   Port Mahon- most Turnstones ever seen, not much else, very
few crabs
                   Ted Harvey-  Black Tern!  (sent separate post)

Ted Harvey proved to be a good last stop.  It provided the tern (and Royal
Tern), Black Skimmers, the only teal, a Sora, sharp-tailed sparrow.  The
beach, accessible from the north boat ramp, had lots of horseshoe crabs and
shorebirds.  Got to spend more time there because after parking on side road
(south end of DE Rt.9 near Air Force base is posted no stopping or parking)
and looking for Upland Sandpipers on/near Dover AFB, it took less than ten
minutes for MPs to drive up and ask for id, ask to search my bag, request
that even though I was on public property to leave immediately, follow me
back to car and all the way to Ted Harvey.  If they stuck with me a little
more they could have seen the tern!

Tom Beal
Glenn Dale, MD

The list-

Pied-billed Grebe
DC Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy
Green
BC Night Heron
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Black Duck
Mallard
BW Teal
Pintail
Hooded Merg (w/ young)
TV
BV
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
RS Hawk
RT Hawk
Hawk
Kestrel
Pheasant
Bobwhite
Clapper Rail
King
Sora
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted SP
Willet
Rudy Turnstone
Red Knot (not many)
Sanderling
Semipalmated SP
Least SP
Dunlin
Dowitcher sp.
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed
Great Balck-backed
Royal Tern
Forster's
Least
Black
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
Mourning
Bb Cuckoo
Yb Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
RT Hummingbird
Kingfisher
RH Woodpecker
RB WP
YB Sapsucker
Downy WP
Hairy WP
Flicker
Pileated WP
Pewee
Acadian FC
Least FC (found a reliable spot near Baysox Stadium)
Phoebe
Great-crested FC
Kingbird
Purple Martin (not as many house seemed occupied along the way in Del. to
Bombay Hook)
Tree Swallow
Rough-winged
Barn
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Car Chickadee
Titmouse
WB Nuthatch
C. Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
BG Gnatcatcher
Bluebird (5 eggs)
Veery
Swainsons Thrush
Wood
Robin
Catbird
Mockingbird
B. Thrasher
Cedar Waxwings
WE Vireo
YT Vireo
RE Vireo
Nashville Warbler
Parula
Yellow
Chestnut-sided
Magnolia
Cape May
Bt Blue
Yellow-rumped
Bt Green
Blackburnian
Yellow-throated
Prairie
Blackpoll
B&W
Redstart
Prothonotary
Ovenbird
N. Waterthrush
Louisiana
Kentucky
Hooded
Wilson's
Canada
Common Y-t
Chat
Scarlet Tanager
RB Grosbeak
Blue
Indigo Bunting
Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field (tried 2 stops in Del for Grasshopper, no luck)
Sharp-tailed
Seaside
Song
Swamp
Whtie-throated
RW Blackbird
Common Grackle
Cowbird
B. Oriole
Orchard
House Finch
Goldfinch
House Sparrow




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