Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:20:54 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Skimmer Island, WHITE IBIS flyby, 7/13/03 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii HI all, While helping the crews prepare for Tuna Tournament at Ocean City Fishing Center around 2pm, I noticed a white egret flying north. As it getting closer, it turned out to be a White Ibis flying over fishing center headed north. I quickly left for Skimmer Island hoping to find it there. For two hours scanning and counting all birds ,the ibis is nowhere on one of these two islands. It probably kept flying north into Delaware, maybe Bombay Hook. It a good thing I check this bird out. Most of the time all white birds I seen are mostly Great and Snowy Egrets flying back and forth over the center. It 4pm, time for me to get back to work cutting and cleaning tuna during Tournament, dolphin (mahi-mahi) and Wahoo also caught and was weighed for heavy fish for money prize. Cousin Bob's farm - outside of Pocomoke City, Worcester Co., MD - 7/13/03 early morning 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 109 Laughing Gull 3 Wild Turkey - hens 2 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 8 Barn Swallow 2 American Crow 1 House Wren 8 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 3 Chipping Sparrow 1 Common Grackle 5 American Goldfinch 6 House Sparrow 21 species Mammals 4 White-tailed Deer (one buck with 8 pointer & second with 10 pointer - huge w/ 2 does) Butterflies 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 Pipevine Swallowtail 7 Cabbage White 1 Pearl Crescent? Dragonflies 2 Common Green Darner 2 Widow Skimmer 4 Twelve-spotted Skimmer Skimmer Island - 7/13/03, 2pm-4pm 44 Brown Pelican (16 ad. & 28 juv.) 86 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue heron 16 Great Egret 17 Snowy Egret 8 Cattle Egret 6 Little Blue Heron 4 Tricolored Heron 2 Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Glossy Ibis 6 Mallard 1 Osprey 52 Laughing Gull 3 Ring-billed Gull 118 Herring Gull 99 Great Black-backed Gull 111 Common Tern 5 Forster's Tern 554 Royal Tern 3 Sandwich Tern 61 Black Skimmer 2 Black-bellied Plover 23 American Oystercatcher 20 Willet 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 Rock Dove 4 Barn Swallow 1 Seaside Sparrow - Hooper's 29 species Many more birds arrive at islands in late evening. Butterflies 3 Cabbage White Marine Creatures 31 Horseshoe Crab - (live one), hundreds dead Later at 830pm before head home, I noticed many more birds headed back to Skimmer Island, there could be a lot more than I had earlier. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD weekday Ocean City, MD weekend ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.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 =======================================================================