[MDOsprey] Delaware shore trip, 7/15

Charlie Muise (cmmbirds@yahoo.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:32:03 -0400 (EDT) 

Hi, folks,

I took a trip last Thursday, but the computer ate the list
I thought I'd written to the listserv - here goes again.

I went alone, (couldn't get Danny out of the county) and
started from North Beach, MD at 6AM. I saw a total of 109
species, the most I've ever had in a day alone.

Questions: 
1) IS the Little Egret really still there?  I was told that
some people think it left weeks ago, and since then we've
all been reporting an unusual SNEG.  Did I really have a
lifer that day, or what?

2) There's an area I call the "north tract" of Bombay Hook.
 That's the part that is non-contiguous with the part that
contains the visitor center,  It's north of the Allee
house, and I generally just bird the field from route 9. 
Is there a real name for this area?

Birds seen in transit, or at Bombay Hook NWR
Great Blue Heron
Great & Snowy Egret
LITTLE EGRET(I think...I hope...)
Green Heron
Glossy Ibis (over 50, the most I've seen at BHNWR)
SNOW GOOSE(I saw 1 white, Arlene Ripley told me she had 2)
Canada Goose
American Black Duck (2 off the board walk trail)
Mallard
Ruddy Duck (2 on ocean side from Shearness Pool)
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk (but no Shouldereds, strangely)
American Kestrel
Northern Bobwhite (saw at least 15, heard many)
Semipalmated Plover (4-6 in the first pool, from the tower)
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet (many plumages)
both Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet (only 4, all off the boardwalk)
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper (first I've ever had without being shown)
Least Sandpiper (only a few at BHNWR, more at Port Mahon
Rd)
White-rumped Sandpiper (5-7 at Raymond Pool)
Pectoral Sandpiper (about 15 at Raymond Pool)
Stilt Sandpiper (about 10 at Raymond)
Both Dowitchers, in every plumage imaginable - you out
             there, Jim Stasz?
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl (one calling at each tower)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee 
Least Flycatcher (several other empids were annoyingly 
       visible and silent - I don't even try)
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Horned Lark (11-14 at the "North Tract" mostly imm?)
Purple Martin (Seems to be a lot this year in Del)
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow (but no N. Rough-winged at BHNWR?)
Barn Swallow
American & Fish Crows
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Sedge Wren (Boardwalk trail)
Marsh Wren (everywhere!)
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Starling
White- and Red-Eyed Vireos
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlett Tanager
Northern Cardinal
BLue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow (But no field?!?)
Sharp-tailed Sparrow (No idead which - can anyone help?)
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Bobolink (4-6 on right, at first corner after the VC)
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common and Boat-tailed Grackles
Brown-headed Cowbird
HOuse Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Port Mahon Road was unusually slow, and added nothing but
Northern Rough Winged Swallow

Little Creek WMA had many of the same, and added:
Bald Eagle (chasing an osprey)
Peregrine Falcon
Gull-billed Tern (2)
Blue Jay
Brown Thrasher

Dover AFB:
Upland Sandpiper and other field species already mentioned

Silver Lake:
Monk 'keets and every flavor of mallard vs ??

Burton's Island (the little nature trail behind the north
side of Indian River Inlet) added:

COMMON LOON (seemed to be basic plumage, I don't know what
   the immatures look like, but it didn't look "fluffy", or

   "cheaply clothed" like juveniles often do.  Didn't 
   appear sick or injured.  Just really, really early?)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Clapper Rail
Tri-colored Heron
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern

Take care, and good birding!

Charlie Muise


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Charlie Muise, Naturalist
Jug Bay Wetlands sanctuary
Next to the Beautiful Chesapeake Bay
Maryland, USA
cmmbirds@yahoo.com
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