Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:14:18 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Ocean City & Assateague Is. cruise, 8/10/03 In-Reply-To: <3A62B9D1.076E4DE7.00047A61@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii HI all, Sorry for a late report. My father and sister was on computer all night Monday night and tonight, didn't get on until 11pm. Best bird of the trip was a juv Curlew Sandpiper. It appear out of nowhere and landed at 3" wet grasses with old washout (like a puddle) and played hide-n-seek among grasses). I had plans for several bird trips last weekend in Ocean City. Rain on/off and high wind ruin my plan for Skimmer Island at low tide and side trip to Assateague Island Seashore on Sat. Sunday was much better but with quite some winds in area. Sunday morning, I try out West Ocean City Pond for any juveniles or immature birds, then to Skimmer Island at low tide and a cruise aboard "Discovery" to Assateague Island across from O.C. Airport looking for marine creatures by using net. I didn't join the group captures fish, crabs.. was focus on birds at beach on bayside and short walk over to ocean side. Weather: Mixed PC/MC, sun came out few times, 74 degree to 83 degree, some winds, warm. West Ocean City Pond 1 Great Blue Heron 9 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 3 Tricolored Heron 3 Little Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 7 Black-crowned Night Heron 109 Canada Goose (Gulf Course Rd./Rt 50) 1 Mallard 4 Wood Duck 3 Common Moorhen (1 ad & 2 juv.) 8 Laughing Gull (6 with geese) 2 Mourning Dove (nearby wire) 7 Barn Swallow 1 American Crow (flyby) 5 American Robin (Gulf Course Rd. area) 1 Gray Catbird ( " " " " 4 Northern Mockingbird (same as above) 53 European Starling (with geese) 3 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Brown-headed Cowbird (with geese) 5 House Finch 22 species Skimmer Island 22 Brown Pelican 77 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 7 Snowy Egret 4 Cattle Egret (6 others at O.C. Airport) 5 Tricolored Heron 5 Little Blue Heron 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Glossy Ibis 2 Mallard 3 Osprey 328 Laughing Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 329 Herring Gull 100 Great Black-backed Gull 93 Common Tern 765 Royal Tern 1 Sandwich Tern 21 Least Tern (on 7/13/03, forgot to put down 42) 3 Black Skimmer 28 American Oystercatcher 716 Sanderling 31 Ruddy Turnstone 5 Rock Dove 8 Barn Swallow 1 Seaside Sparrow Butterflies 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 Cabbage White 1 Monarch Assateague Island Cruise aboard "Discovery Cruise" docked out of 1st St & Bay at BJ's On The Water - counted birds and other wildlife south of Rt 50 bridge and land at the beach at bayside across from airport. 1 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Brown Pelican 2 Great Blue Heron 4 Great Egret 5 Snowy Egret 4 Tricolored Heron 1 Canada Goose 2 American Black Duck 1 Nothern Harrier (female) 3 Osprey (two youngs still at nest) 31 Laughing Gull 46 Herring Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Common Tern 13 Forster's Tern 1 Royal Tern 2 Sandwich Tern (oceanside) 1 Gull-billed Tern (oceanside) 51 Least Tern (many over ocean, some youngs at beach) 78 Black Skimmer (rested on mudflat) 15 American Oystercatcher 8 Willet 18 Sanderling 6 Red Knot 2 Least Sandpiper 20 Dunlin 1 Whimbrel (oceanside) 1 Piping Plover (oceanside) 1 CURLEW SANDPIPER (juv.) 1 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 4 American Goldfinch Mammals 9 Wild Ponies Butterflies 1 Pipevine Swallowtail Dragonflies 3 Seaside Dragonlet Marine creatures (including invertebrates) 3 Blue Crab 4 Mummichog 2 Striped Killifish 1 Striped Bass (young, about 1"-2") 2 Hermit Crab (1 w/ Checkered Periwinkle & 1 w/ Mudsnail) 4 Moon Jellyfish???? 2 White Shrimp??? 1 Chain Pipefish (all caught with nets by groups) Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD weekday Ocean City, MD weekend Key West, FL (Oct & Dec.) 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================