Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:54:43 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mark Hoffman Subject: Assateague-2003-09-24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings -- 09/24/2003 Assateague Island/Bayside 0645-1235 Resonable migrant flight on light NW winds (~5 mph). Front passed through during morning of the 23rd. Brown Pelican 10; Double-crested Cormorant 40; Great Blue Heron 5; Great Egret 3; Snowy Egret 8; Little Blue Heron 4; Tricolored Heron 3; Green Heron 2; Glossy Ibis 2; Turkey Vulture 1; Northern Pintail 14; Green-winged Teal 5; Osprey 2; Semipalmated Plover 1; Killdeer 2; Greater Yellowlegs 4; Lesser Yellowlegs 4; Whimbrel 1; Least Sandpiper 1; Laughing Gull 100; Ring-billed Gull 1; Herring Gull 33; Great Black-backed Gull 1; Caspian Tern 8; Royal Tern 20; Forster's Tern 2; Mourning Dove 2; Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1; RED-HEADED WOODPECKER 1 (imm., flyover at Point, my 5th on Assateague, 7th overall, between 9/11 and 10/18) ; Downy Woodpecker 3; Northern Flicker 11; White-eyed Vireo 6; Red-eyed Vireo 11; Tree Swallow 10; Carolina Chickadee 2; Red-breasted Nuthatch 1; Carolina Wren 9; House Wren 5; Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1; American Robin 6; Gray Catbird 110; Northern Mockingbird 1; Brown Thrasher 6; European Starling 11; Cedar Waxwing 12; Northern Parula 1; Yellow Warbler 1; Magnolia Warbler 4; Cape May Warbler 2; Black-throated Blue Warbler 1; Black-throated Green Warbler 4; Prairie Warbler 4; Palm Warbler (western form) 5; Blackpoll Warbler 1; Black-and-White Warbler 3; American Redstart 13; Common Yellowthroat 10; Wilson's Warbler 1; Yellow-breasted Chat 1; warbler (sp.) 36; Eastern Towhee 10; Chipping Sparrow 2; Field Sparrow 5; Savannah Sparrow 1; Song Sparrow 3; Northern Cardinal 4; Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1; DICKCISSEL 1 (photos, unusual in not being a flyover at point, found along scrub/woods edge between east end of camping loops and maintenance yard, now 60 fall records for Worcester); Bobolink 5; Red-winged Blackbird 2; Boat-tailed Grackle 25; Baltimore Oriole 8; House Finch 7; American Goldfinch 6. 09/24/2003 Assateague/Causeway 1325-1430 Looking for Lark Sparrow found eariler in day by the Brodericks - no luck. Double-crested Cormorant 10; Great Blue Heron 1; Great Egret 10; Snowy Egret 30; Little Blue Heron 2; Glossy Ibis 10; Turkey Vulture 3; Osprey 1; Black-bellied Plover 5; Semipalmated Plover 1; Killdeer 1; Greater Yellowlegs 1; Semipalmated Sandpiper 1; Laughing Gull 40; Herring Gull 20; Great Black-backed Gull 1; Royal Tern 5; House Wren 2; Gray Catbird 4; Northern Mockingbird 1; European Starling 15; Palm Warbler (western form) 1; American Redstart 1; Common Yellowthroat 2; Savannah Sparrow 5; Northern Cardinal 1; Boat-tailed Grackle 20. Mark Hoffman Sykesville, MD Mhoff36100@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================