Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:04:03 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Smith Island, 7/20/03 In-Reply-To: <200307172311_MC3-1-4313-ECC8@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Didn?t finish my report until today due to review the dragonflies book for better id?s. Joined Patty Craig and her daughter (sorry, didn?t catch her name), and sometimes Marty Cribb joined us looking for seabirds. A very good day, high in the 90?s. A lot of waders, some juv. still in nest. Wilson Storm Petrel was seen well feeding on bait with several gulls from one of two commerical boats. I was hoping we're in Somerset County to get this storm petrel into county list, because we are somewhere on the county line from the look of the old ship's bow. Marty Cribb told me that when we past the old ship, we are in Somerset County but we're about 1/4 mile from that county line, that means we're still in St. Mary's County. Well the petrel was in St Mary's County. Point Lookout State Park ?Lake Conoy Boat Launch Facility? St. Mary?s County, MD 8 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Brown Pelican 11 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 10 Laughing Gull 15 Herring Gull 4 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Forster?s Tern 2 Royal Tern 1 Caspian Tern 1 Rock Dove 2 Chimney Swift 4 Barn Swallow 1 Northern Flicker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 Northern Cardinal 3 Common Grackle Butterflies 2 Cabbage White 2 Common Buckeye Dragonflies 2 Little Blue Dragonlet??? Elsewhere in park 3 Brown Pelican 8 Mute Swan (5 ad, 3 juv.) 4 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 7 Laughing Gull 14 Herring Gull 2 Mourning Dove 7 Barn Swallow 1 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 1 Brown-headed Nuthatch 1 Pine Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Swamp Sparrow Bay Cruise ? St. Mary?s County 1 Wilson?s Storm-Petrel 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Brown Pelican 1 Great Blue Heron 28 Laughing Gull 19 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Caspian Tern Bay Cruise ? Somerset County 2 Brown Pelican 8 Laughing Gull 3 Herring Gull 4 Great Black-backed Gull & 1 Common Green Darner Smith Island & Martin National Wildlife Refuge 48 Double-crested Cormorant 24 Brown Pelican 47 Great Blue Heron 4 Green Heron 10 Tricolored Heron (some at nest) 23 Little Blue Heron (some at nest) 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 7 Yellow-crowned Night Heron (one juv at nest) 49 Great Egret (some at nest) 11 Snowy Egret 10 Glossy Ibis 26 Mallard 3 American Black Duck 1 Turkey Vulture 12 Osprey 1 Virginia Rail 10 American Oystercatcher 9 Willet 2 Sanderling 76 Laughing Gull 8 Ring-billed Gull 399 Herring Gull 198 Great Black-backed Gull 49 Common Tern 4 Forster?s Tern 66 Royal Tern 2 Caspian Tern 1 Sandwich Tern (imm.) 1 Eastern Kingbird 87 Barn Swallow 3 Purple Martin (juv) no adults around 38 Fish Crow 1 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 2 Seaside Sparrow 1 Orchard Oriole (possible 2, flew across road low into tree) 3 Red-winged Blackbird (kind of low for large tract of marshes) 1 Boat-tailed Grackle 72 House Sparrow Marine wildlife 2 Diamondback Terripan (near Martin) 1 unknown sea turtle (near Martin) Butterflies 7 Cabbage White 8 Clouded Sulfer 2 Mourning Cloak 7 Common Buckeye 1 Monarch 1 Little Wood Satyr ??? not sure, disappeared into scrub Dragonflies 59 Little Blue Dragonlet 385 Seaside Dragonlet 21 Eastern Pondhawk ?? 1 Martha?s Pennant?? not sure, was a female 1 Black Saddlebag? not sure, took off quick Last, not least over 200 Feral cats Thanks to Patty & her daughter and to Marty Cribb for their help assist with birds calling. Patty's daughter more interested in boats than in birds. I love boats too. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD weekday Ocean City, MD weekend ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.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 =======================================================================