Re: [MDOsprey] RBA: Delaware, July 1, 1999
Don Burggraf (dburggraf@hotmail.com)
Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:25:23 PDT
Dear Ospreyers,
I went to find the Little Egret July 3. As instructed in the RBA, I arrived
early. However, for the last two days, the bird has not been seen until
afternoon. (Andother birder and I found it for the first time after 3 p.m.
- almost 8 hours of looking! When we found it, we danced and jumped.) The
birder from New York birding alongside me for much of the day observed that
the tides made a great difference as to how many egrets of any kind were in
the refuge. If you go, you might want to go at high tide. We didn't find
all birds that have been reported, but we did have a fine day. In addition
to my list (below) my New York colleague found least bittern and the
Wilson's phalarope.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy egret
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret (yay)
Glossy Ibis (a miss on any white faces)
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail (!)
Gadwall
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Ring-necked Pheasant
Nothern Bobwhite
King Rail (heard only)
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover (an early surprise!)
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper (another nice surprise!)
Short-billed Dowitcher (couldn't find any to change into a LBDO)
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow-eyed Junco
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
sharp-tailed sparrow (sp)(heard only)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
American Goldfinch
Don Burggraf
Baltimore
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