Delaware Bayshore
Marcia Watson-Whitmyre (mww@UDel.Edu)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:06:14 -0400
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On Wednesday July 22, I birded the Delaware bayshore:
Bombay Hook, Ted Harvey WMA, Prime Hook NWR (the office
area, the ponds, and roads leading into Broadkill Beach,
Prime Hook/Short's Beach, Fowler's Beach, and Slaughter
Beach), Mispillion Lighthouse, and the field on Rt. 9 by
the Dover AirBase. Despite the heat (100+), it was good
birding (90+ species), with a breeze to keep the bugs off
(although it did little to cool things down), and I did my
bit to make sure birders have an impact on the economy by
buying lots of cold drinks and ice cream. The prominent
birds were Glossy Ibis, the usual herons and egrets, both
yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper
(predominant), a few Western and Least Sandpipers,
Short-billed Dowitchers, the usual gulls, Forster's Terns,
Eastern Kingbirds, lots of swallows (Tree, Bank, Barn,
Northern Rough-winged, and Purple Martins), Marsh Wrens,
Common Yellowthroats, Indigo Buntings, and Goldfinches.
Some additional birds:
At Bombay Hook:
Least Bittern (1, Bear Swamp)
Virginia Rail (1, opposite Shearness)
Clapper Rail (6 or 7, scattered throughout)
Black-necked Stilt (20+, scattered throughout)
American Avocet (200, Raymond)
Black Tern (1, first summer plumage, Shearness)
Least Tern (1, adult plumage, Shearness)
Eastern Screech Owl (grey phase, in wood duck box near end
of Bear Swamp loop
Horned Lark (50, plowed field on northeast corner of
entrance road and Rt. 9)
I could NOT find the immature White Ibis that has been
reported, but most of the ibises were distant and in bad
viewing conditions, with lots of heat waves
At Ted Harvey:
Ruddy Turnstone (20)
Sanderling (30)
At Prime Hook NWR office area:
Cliff Swallow (1, on wire outside office with Bank and
Rough-Wingeds)
At Prime Hook Terkle and Fleetwood Ponds (note: no access
to ponds from Aug. 1 to Sep 10):
Great Crested Flycatchers (group of 8 birds)
Brown-headed Nuthatch (at least 3, possibly more)
Pine Warbler (several, singing)
Summer Tanager (1, singing and calling)
On Rt. 16 leading into Broadkill Beach:
Ruddy Turnstone (40)
Least Tern (1, adult plumage)
Gull-billed Tern (imm. plumage, 2)
At Fowler's Beach:
Ruddy Turnstone (20)
Sanderling (hundreds)
Least Tern (1, adult plumage, at the bridge before the
beach)
At Mispillion Light:
Clapper Rail (1)
American Oystercatcher (6)
Ruddy Turnstone (20)
Sanderling (50)
Common Tern (15)
Black Skimmer (11)
field on Rt. 9 by Dover Air Base Museum entrance
Grasshopper Sparrow (1)
Could NOT find Upland Sandpipers
Marcia Watson-Whitmyre
Cecil County, MD
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